HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.
MembersReviewsPopularityRatingFavorited   Events   
3,228 (12,966)2107,829 (3.74)11
Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of poetry, including his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He lives in Yorkshire, England, is a professor of poetry at the University of Sheffield, and in 2010 was awarded the CBE for services to poetry. — biography from The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation… (more)
The Death of King Arthur: A New Verse Translation (Translator) 339 copies, 10 reviews
Kid 333 copies, 4 reviews
Walking Home 327 copies, 19 reviews
All Points North 215 copies, 5 reviews
Selected Poems 132 copies, 4 reviews
Little Green Man 110 copies, 4 reviews
Seeing Stars 104 copies, 4 reviews
Walking Away 88 copies, 3 reviews
Book of Matches 75 copies
CloudCuckooLand 68 copies
King Arthur in the East Riding 67 copies, 1 review
Zoom! 65 copies, 1 review
Killing Time 49 copies, 1 review
The Unaccompanied 46 copies, 1 review
The Not Dead 34 copies
The White Stuff 27 copies, 2 reviews
Out of the Blue 22 copies
Mister Heracles 17 copies
Xanadu 17 copies, 1 review
A Vertical Art 14 copies
Stanza Stones 10 copies, 2 reviews
Still 6 copies
Flit 6 copies, 1 review
Poesie 4 copies
Great lyricists : Alex Turner (Foreword) 3 copies
Jerusalem 3 copies
LX 2 copies
New Cemetery 2 copies
The Odyssey (Dramatized) (Adaption) 1 copy
Tract. 1 copy
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Translator, some editions) 8,202 copies, 99 reviews
Pearl (Translator, some editions) 342 copies, 4 reviews
Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame (Contributor) 291 copies, 4 reviews
The Art of Losing (Contributor) 189 copies, 20 reviews
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (Contributor) 153 copies
Granta 62: What Young Men Do (Contributor) 140 copies, 2 reviews
Emergency Kit (Contributor, some editions) 107 copies, 1 review
Granta 119: Britain (Contributor) 106 copies
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (Contributor) 33 copies
AQA Anthology (Author, some editions) 19 copies

LibraryThing Early Reviewers Alum

Simon Armitage's book The Art of Losing was available from LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

Member ratings

Average: (3.74)
0.5 1
1 31
1.5 15
2 111
2.5 21
3 464
3.5 118
4 661
4.5 71
5 390

Author pictures (2)

   

(see all 2 author pictures)

Improve this author

Combine/separate works

Author division

Simon Armitage is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

Includes

Simon Armitage is composed of 4 names. You can examine and separate out names.

Combine with…

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 194,687,441 books! | Top bar: Always visible