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Simon Armitage Archive
Armitage, Simon (1963-)
c.1984-2015
The Simon Armitage Archive covers Armitage’s work as a poet and writer from 1984 to 2015. This comprehensive archive documents all aspects of Armitage's career as a poet, writer, dramatist, libret...
Published work
c.1986-2006
This section of the Simon Armitage Archive comprises of papers relating to published works by Armitage, including poetry collections, prose and drama. The arrangement is chronological by publication.
The Distance Between Stars
c.1986-1987
1 ts poem, ‘Poem’, published in Simon Armitage’s first collection The Distance Between Stars (Sheffield: Wide Skirt Press, 1987). This poem was later reworked as ‘Dear Robinson’ (Kid, 1992)....
Cloudcuckooland
c.1995-1997
Papers relating to Simon Armitage’s poetry collection Cloudcuckooland, published by Faber and Faber in 1997. Includes papers relating to the verse play Eclipse.
1. Poem Drafts
1995-1996
Typescript (many annotated) and ms drafts of poems collected in Cloudcuckooland (19 ff). The file also contains a contents list for the collection, and a computer print-out of the contents of ‘The W...
2. Queries and Cover Copy
1997
2 ts letters from Christopher Reid at Faber and Faber (7-27 February 1997) accompanying lists of queries relating to individual poems, with Simon Armitage’s ms annotations; 1 ts letter and 2 ts docu...
3. Proofs
1997
Page proofs for Cloudcuckooland, with Simon Armitage’s ms corrections. Also held in this file is an invitation card for a party at Faber and Faber to mark the publication of Cloudcuckooland.
4. Eclipse
1997-1999
Papers relating to Simon Armitage’s verse play Eclipse, commissioned by the National Theatre as part of the 1997 BT Connections Project. The play was published in Cloudcuckooland, and also as part o...
All Points North
1996-1999
Papers relating to All Points North, Simon Armitage’s collections of essays, poetry and drama about living in Northern England (and, in particular, West Yorkshire). The collection was published by P...
1. Drafts, Etc.
1996-1997
Ms and annotated ts drafts of and/or towards sections of All Points North (34 ff) including ‘Where You’re At’, ‘The Film Set’, ‘From Salford to Jericho’, ‘Huddersfield is Hollywood’....
3. Miscellanea (Post-Publication)
1998-1999
Invitation to a party to celebrate the publication of All Points North; photocopied short review from the tLs (4 December 1998); and a ts (word-processed) letter to Simon Armitage from "Di” (undated...