Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield and lives in Yorkshire, UK. He has published over a dozen collections of poetry, most recently Seeing Stars (Knopf, 2011) and Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989-2014 (Faber & Faber). His acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007) is published by Norton in the US.