In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself..

Somebody will be able to crack ebook files in the same way that people cracked music files a decade ago. An author could have worked for three years ….

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand..

We still need a voice that thinks before it speaks..

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based f….

I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of time and the changes in ….

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book..

Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us ove….

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not ….

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It i….

You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at ….

It’s never going to be very mainstream. One reason is that poetry requires concentration, both on the part of the writer and the reader. But it’s kin….

As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equati….

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture..

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Hu….

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose ….

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage..

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind..

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous..