Simon Armitage: 'poetry is a form of dissent'

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12 жыл бұрын

Poet and novelist Simon Armitage has been writing about Britain for decades now. In the latest in our National Conversations series of interviews, Armitage talks to John Harris about the obstinate nature of poetry and the culture of violence in Britain that he believes precipitated the UK riots
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@suestewart4884 9 жыл бұрын

Armitage is both down to earth and sublime. Great poet.

@bolt18999 2 жыл бұрын

@swsholdingeu Жыл бұрын

Wonderful interview; Simon, as usual, can be down to earth and bring up thought provoking themes. And it all comes off naturally. A great man he is - in every way - glad to hear him as a young 20 something.

@mjselenehernandezgomez7434 Жыл бұрын

Amazing poet. It's benn always a delight to listen to his voice, comments and thoughts. All my respect. Greetings from Mexico.

@MrHarryscoots Жыл бұрын

the interviewer hammers reverence into this interview, holding armitage into a light, when at the beginning "simon says" what i do is obstinate and a form dissent, interesting and opposing views of the work between the poet and the critic

@mikecusack3701 8 жыл бұрын

You was right Mr.Armitage. Those cracks have now become gaping canyons.

@emilynielsen4378 5 жыл бұрын

Everything he said here is really true and motivational for those who write. Amazing!

@patrickbateman1434 Жыл бұрын

Met this guy today

@thegabrielhyde 10 жыл бұрын

Really great interview. Kudos to John Harris.

@weskitten 9 жыл бұрын

A bit more Phillip Larkin poetry in the schools would make children like poems more!

@1alopezg 6 жыл бұрын

Are you off your rocker? i can think of nothing more miserable and dull. maybe a poetry that actually communicates something like a recognisable experience to them in a language that might still have some vitality and pleasure for them?

@jigsawmuzak 6 жыл бұрын

For you probably most areas of intellectual activity come as dull. No help, then.

@angelstarfire 5 жыл бұрын

I agree

@branthomas1621 2 жыл бұрын

You cannot make children like poetry.

@harryowen6939 Жыл бұрын

"Don't remember that Wilfred dude": just about says it all.

@elliotskunk Жыл бұрын

what a guy

@judithmackay9735 2 жыл бұрын

Wow what a poet!

@rab6345 2 жыл бұрын

if there was no poetry i wouldnt be forced to do it for gcse

@weskitten 9 жыл бұрын

So, was Simon Armitage once a social worker or something? His book Walking Home now in 2015 has a sequel: Walking Away. Out, of course, in Faber.

@pitchforkcustom Жыл бұрын

probation officer. sorry i took 7 years to reply 😊

@bennybenny55 12 жыл бұрын

tell the singer not to sing her song tell the poet that he's wrong.

@chilldude30 3 жыл бұрын

What's so bad about living in Yorkshire?

@mortschubert3909 4 жыл бұрын

If everybody enjoyed poetry, there would no point in writing poetry?!

@masoomamalik4151 11 жыл бұрын

I hate to post this type of comment, but I'd really love it if you could check out a poem I posted? I just need some opinions, it'd be greatly appreciated. Anyway, I did actually enjoy watching THIS video.

@mortschubert3909 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we have somehow come to resent this type of approach. :) Where's your poem, anyway?

@Louismulh 3 жыл бұрын

im doing this for school. I hate it.

@oxygensoverrated7847 3 жыл бұрын

Same lad

@paulmitchell5349 5 жыл бұрын

Quite some dissenter, Poet Laureate, pillar of the establishment. Ditto radio 4 Roger McGough.

@christiantaylor1195 Жыл бұрын

The Yorkshire Bard Strikes Again. Planet Mars(den) FTW. Bazzin'.

@yuppyprolepaste4926 8 жыл бұрын

And the North South divide five years later, how's it looking? Half the people from the North I know in London have gone back, and many not from there are following too because prices are too high. Scotland's tryna cut the leash, and many Northerners, it seems, would rather join them than stay English under the Tories.