Armitage, Simon
Entry updated 23 September 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1963- ) UK translator and poet, Poet Laureate from 2019. Much of his Poetry, which may be described as fluently world-facing, comes close to or enters the water margins of Fantastika, though his use of the SF Megatext is casual. The poems assembled in CloudCuckooLand (coll 1997) are consistent with this delineation; the volume also includes a full-length Near Future drama, Eclipse, set at a time of Climate Change.
Armitage's translations [see Checklist below] have been well received. [JC]
Simon Robert Armitage
born Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: 26 May 1963
works (highly selected)
- CloudCuckooLand (London: Faber and Faber, 1997) [coll: contains full-length verse play Eclipse: hb/Fred Espenak]
works as translator (selected)
- Homer's Odyssey (London: Faber and Faber, 2006) [poem: see Homer: hb/]
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (London: Faber and Faber, 2007) [poem: circa 1200: hb/Clive Hicks-Jenkins]
- The Death of King Arthur (2012) [poem: trans of the Alliterative Morte Arthure, circa 1400: hb/]
- Pearl (London: Faber and Faber, 2016) [poem: circa 1400: hb/Emiliano Ponzi]
- The Owl and the Nightingale (London: Faber and Faber, 2021) [poem: circa 1200-1300: hb/Clive Hicks-Jenkins]
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