Posts tagged with simon-armitage

Jun 11 2019

I'm so proud

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I don't know how I missed this, but I was delighted to discover that Simon Armitage—author of my all-time favorite poem, "I am very bothered"—was announced last month as the UK's next Poet Laureate...

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Nov 1 2005

Time for a little Wordcandy-riffic poetry...

I am very bothered when I thinkof the bad things I have done in my life.Not least that time in the chemistry labwhen I held a pair of scissors by the bladesand played the handlesin the naked lilac...

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