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by Simon Armitage ( 207 ) £5.69 £9.99 In summer 2010 Simon Armitage decided to walk the Pennine Way. First the tape is a kind of umbilical cord, if a metaphorical one. Mothers are perhaps one of the most universal subjects of poetry, but one that is not very often read about; one can ready poems about war, or love, about family and trauma, but poems specifically about mothers such as Mother, Any Distance, seem to be a bit of a rare breed of writing. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Prev Article Next Article . Other Formats: Hardcover includes VAT* Buy now Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. Simon Armitage on Marsden: ‘The hills stand far taller than the architecture’ The poet on growing up in Yorkshire and watching the world from his bedroom window Published: 2 Jun 2018 He becomes more ambitious, “leaving up the stairs”, but they are still connected. Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with the night-time view from his bedroom window, those ‘private, moonstruck observations’ and the clockwork comings and goings in the village providing rich subject matter for his first poems. Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. Hughes grew up in Mytholmroyd, just outside Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley, and Armitage in the Colne Valley, the next valley system south. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. Armitage grew up in the shadow of Ted Hughes. Mother, Any Distance by Simon Armitage. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District … Walking Home 26-Jun-2012.
Armitage describes a very real scene: a mother and son measuring up a home but we realise it works on another level as well, that of a boy growing up, checking back with his mother, exploring more and more widely. Context: Simon Armitage and ‘Give ... Adolescence and growing up are common themes in Armitage’s work and he visits schools and colleges regularly to discuss poetry and his own work with young people. He cites him as the first poet to open his eyes, not just to poetry and landscape, but geographically as well. - Simon Armitage in the Guardian, on growing up in Marsden. Simon Armitage: You wake up and somebody has taken one of the mountains away Simon Armitage, the poet, talks about his latest troubadour’s quest, and mourning Seamus Heaney Read more. The industrial background of Yorkshire has been a key influence on Armitage’s poetry.