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Simon Armitage Archive
Armitage, Simon (1963-)
c.1984-2015
The Simon Armitage Archive covers Armitage’s work as a poet and writer from 1984 to 2015. This comprehensive archive documents all aspects of Armitage's career as a poet, writer, dramatist, libret...
Published work
c.1986-2006
This section of the Simon Armitage Archive comprises of papers relating to published works by Armitage, including poetry collections, prose and drama. The arrangement is chronological by publication.
Personalia
1984-2002
This series comprises personal items relating to Simon Armitage, including examples of student work, CVs, photographs, etc.; and miscellaneous items collected by Armitage for personal interest.
Digital Material
c. 2004 - 2014
A substantial collection of born digital records documenting Simon Armitage's creative and working processes. Material is arranged by medium (with photographs and video kept separately from text files...
Correspondence
1986-2006
This series comprises letters sent to Simon Armitage and is currently closed.
Notebooks
.1992-2004
This section of the Simon Armitage Archive comprises notebooks containing ms drafts of poetry, prose and drama by Simon Armitage. The notebooks generally contain drafts relating to more than one work.
Early and uncollected poems
c.1984-1992
Manuscript and typescript drafts and copies of early poems by Simon Armitage, and poems not published in his poetry collections. In some cases, the poems may have been published in periodicals.
Radio, television, drama and commissions
1992-2006
This section of the Simon Armitage Archive comprises papers relating to Armitage’s work for radio, television and theatre, and other commissions.
Lectures, articles and reviews
c.1992-2004
Papers relating chiefly to prose writing by Simon Armitage, including articles and essays, reviews, short stories and lectures and talks, and comprising of ms and typescript drafts and clean copies. I...
Schools, Universities, Courses and Readings
15 May 1989 – 5 January 2006
Papers relating to Simon Armitage’s work with schools, colleges and universities, and related interest groups; his work as a tutor of creative writing; and his participation in poetry readings and f...
Press cuttings and publicity
1986-2007
This series comprises copies of magazines and periodicals in which poems and articles by Simon Armitage, and articles about Simon Armitage, were published; and related papers including proofs, press c...
Zoom!
c.1987-1990
The poems include re-workings of a number of poems previously published in The Distance Between Stars (Sheffield: Wide Skirt Press, 1987). The collection won an Eric Gregory Award.