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Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020), Blossomise (2024) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare's Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2018. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate. Rachel Bower is a poet and novelist based in Sheffield. Her works include a debut novel, It Comes from the River (Bloomsbury, 2025), and three poetry collections, most recently Bee (Hazel Press, 2025). She was awarded second place in the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2024, and her poetry was highly commended in the Ginkgo Prize 2023 and shortlisted for the Best Poem of UK Landscape 2023. |
