Popular British poet selected for prestigious post ahead of strong field including Wole Soyinka
The British poet Simon Armitage has seen off an international field to be chosen as Oxford’s latest professor of poetry.
Speaking to the Guardian after the announcement, Armitage said he was “delighted and very excited and suitably daunted as well”.
“It’s been such a long process,” he said. “In the time it’s taken we’ve had a general election, Sepp Blatter has come and gone and come again, and we’ve nearly got a new leader of the Labour party.”
The award-winning author of more than 12 collections of poetry, Armitage has been hailed by fellow poet Sean O’Brien as “the first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity”.
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Speaking to the Guardian after the announcement, Armitage said he was “delighted and very excited and suitably daunted as well”.
“It’s been such a long process,” he said. “In the time it’s taken we’ve had a general election, Sepp Blatter has come and gone and come again, and we’ve nearly got a new leader of the Labour party.”
The award-winning author of more than 12 collections of poetry, Armitage has been hailed by fellow poet Sean O’Brien as “the first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity”.
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