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Featuring as part of our home grown season Yorkshire poet Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of poetry, his most recent collections include Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid and Seeing Stars. He has received numerous awards for his poetry including the Sunday Times Author of the Year, one of the first Forward Prizes and a Lannan Award. Simon Armitage is one of the great public poets of his generation whose work, spanning poetry and film, has won wide acclaim. In The Not Dead, Armitage beautifully captures the testimonies of war veterans from the Gulf, Bosnia and Malayan wars, and this event combines poetry readings with a screening of the film of the same name. This landmark work adds to the great tradition of English war poetry which Simon Armitage has re-invigorated for the modern age.

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Simon Armitage