Simon Armitage CBE, elected a Fellow of the RSL in 2004, is a poet, essayist, and playwright. He is UK Poet Laureate, and founded the Laurel Prize.
Recorded on date : November 30, 2020
Simon Armitage CBE, elected a Fellow of the RSL in 2004, is a poet, essayist, and playwright. He is UK Poet Laureate, and founded the Laurel Prize.
Our Members are champions of literature. Their support makes our engagement work in schools and prisons possible and they enable us to celebrate literature in all its wonderful diversity. As a thank you, we give them all the joys of a literary festival and book club rolled into one, all year round.