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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

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It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

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In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

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I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

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I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

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I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

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The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

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Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

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I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

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I even feel guilty if I'm reading a novel, because I think I should be reading Homer again. I don't really know what free time is, because I don't have something to measure it against.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Poet

Born: May 26th, 1963

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