{"title":"Simon Armitage","description":"\u003cp\u003eSimon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimon Armitage is the current national Poet Laureate (2019-2029).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds and was elected to serve as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford for 2015-2019. In Spring 2019, he held the post of Holmes Visiting Professor at Princeton University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/collections\/Screenshot_2026-06-02_173037.png?v=1780417878","url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/en-us\/collections\/simon-armitage.oembed","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}