Simon Armitage in Haworth

A press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum:

Simon Armitage in Haworth

Described as the best-known poet of his generation, Simon Armitage will be speaking about and reading from a selection of his work at the West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth on Friday 20 June at 7.30pm.

The event coincides with the Elmet exhibition of photographs by Fay Godwin (from her collaboration with Ted Hughes) currently on show at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. Simon Armitage is patron of The Elmet Trust and has edited an anthology of Hughes’ poems. He also wrote the introduction to Fay Godwin’s last published collection of photographs, Landmarks, in 2001.

Simon Armitage’s outstanding poems, accomplished performances and dry sense of humour will make for a highly entertaining evening. The event forms part of the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s contemporary arts programme.

Simon Armitage has published ten volumes of poetry, for which he has won numerous awards, including a Forward Prize, Eric Gregory Award, and a Lannan Award, in addition to being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Poetry Award. His Selected Poems was published in 2001, and his latest collection is Tyrannosaurus versus the Corduroy Kid (2006). Simon is also the author of All Points North (1998), and two novels Little Green Man and The White Stuff. He has recently published Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-star Fantasist (2008).

Tickets cost £9.50 (£5.00 16 years and under) and must be booked in advance. As part of this event the museum will be open until 7pm for those wishing to view the Elmet exhibition. For further details please contact the Brontë Parsonage Museum, 01535 640188/ jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk

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