Armitage is both down to earth and sublime. Great poet.
@bolt189992 жыл бұрын
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@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
@mikecusack37018 жыл бұрын
You was right Mr.Armitage. Those cracks have now become gaping canyons.
@patrickbateman1434 Жыл бұрын
Met this guy today
@emilynielsen43785 жыл бұрын
Everything he said here is really true and motivational for those who write. Amazing!
@thegabrielhyde11 жыл бұрын
Really great interview. Kudos to John Harris.
@weskitten9 жыл бұрын
A bit more Phillip Larkin poetry in the schools would make children like poems more!
@1alopezg6 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?
@jigsawmuzak6 жыл бұрын
For you probably most areas of intellectual activity come as dull. No help, then.
@angelstarfire5 жыл бұрын
I agree
@branthomas16212 жыл бұрын
You cannot make children like poetry.
@rab63452 жыл бұрын
if there was no poetry i wouldnt be forced to do it for gcse
@harryowen6939 Жыл бұрын
"Don't remember that Wilfred dude": just about says it all.
@weskitten9 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 😊
@elliotskunk Жыл бұрын
what a guy
@judithmackay97352 жыл бұрын
Wow what a poet!
@mortschubert39094 жыл бұрын
If everybody enjoyed poetry, there would no point in writing poetry?!
@Louismulh3 жыл бұрын
im doing this for school. I hate it.
@oxygensoverrated78473 жыл бұрын
Same lad
@bennybenny5512 жыл бұрын
tell the singer not to sing her song tell the poet that he's wrong.
@chilldude304 жыл бұрын
What's so bad about living in Yorkshire?
@_epe25903 ай бұрын
perfect last minute gcse revision
@masoomamalik415111 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.
@mortschubert39094 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we have somehow come to resent this type of approach. :) Where's your poem, anyway?
@paulmitchell53495 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'.
@yuppyprolepaste49268 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.
@yindynasty25417 жыл бұрын
RIP Simon Armitage 1963-2017.
@RaefonB6 жыл бұрын
*facepalm* I believed you and went rushing to Google. Lol.
@johncalvert59315 жыл бұрын
Dont like Armitage.. smug..rather arrogant... and he cant write prose... his prose books are TERRIBLE...
@alansbinnie14465 жыл бұрын
It is a form of lazy writing from those who cannot manage decent prose.