[Photo Credit: Paul Wolfgang Webster]
The
Department of English, University of Chester, is pleased to announce that the
ninth talk in the Professor Glyn Turton Lecture series will be delivered by one
of Britain’s most distinguished writers, Simon Armitage.
Armitage is
author of over twenty poetry collections, including: Zoom! (1989), Kid (1992), Book of Matches (1993), The
Dead Sea Poems (1995), CloudCuckooLand (1997), Killing
Time (1999), Travelling Songs (2002), The
Universal Home Doctor (2002), Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy
Kid (2006), Seeing Stars (2010), and Paper Aeroplanes (2014). His other writing includes
autobiographies, travelogues, plays, scripts, and translations of Homer’s Odyssey (2006), Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (2007), The Death of King Arthur (2011), and Pearl (2016). In 2004, he was elected Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2010, for services to poetry, was
appointed CBE. He is a Vice-President of the Poetry Society and Professor of
Poetry at the University of Oxford.
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