The multi-talented poet will be answering your questions in a live webchat from 1pm BST on Wednesday 4 May 9.24am BSTWith his ruminations on everything from humdrum British life to ancient Greece and the horrors of war,Simon Armitage is one of Britain’s best-known poets. His work rate is staggering, combining readings with film-making, or radio programmes,songwriting, stage productions, and teaching at Sheffield university,and, following in the footsteps of Auden and Heaney, and lecturing as Oxford Professor of Poetry.
As well as original poems reflecting on aerial photographs of the Somme,his latest work is Pearl, a translation of a medieval epic thought to be by the same anonymous author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and which Armitage has also translated to much acclaim. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com