Events, Recent & Forthcoming
Blossomise tour, National Trust
Sat, April 20, 6.00pm – LYR: Blossomise, Plymouth. Tickets on sale. Sold out
Sun, April 21, 1.00pm – LYR: Blossomise, Coventry. Tickets on sale.
Fri, April 26 – Blossomise reading, Castlefield Viaduct, Manchester. Sold out
Sat, April 27, 5.00pm – LYR: Blossomise, Quarry Bank, Styal, Cheshire. Tickets on sale. Sold out
Sun, April 28, 5.30pm – LYR: Blossomise, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Tickets on sale. Sold out
Sat, May 18, 10.00pm – Simon Armitage at Cork International Poetry Festival, Ireland. Tickets on sale.
Wed, May 29, 7.30pm – Simon Armitage: Blossomise at Salisbury Cathedral, Tickets on sale.
Thurs, May 30, 7.30pm – Simon Armitage reads Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, ST13 6AD. Tickets on sale. Sold out, waiting list available
Sat, June 1, 8.30pm – Simon Armitage and Clive Hicks-Jenkins, Event 335, Hay Festival. Tickets on sale.
Sun, June 2, 11.30am – Simon Armitage: Blossomise, Event 347, Hay Festival. Tickets on sale.
Sun, June 2, 7.30pm – LYR at Hay Festival. Tickets on sale
June 8-9, Simon Armitage at Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas, Borris, Ireland. Tickets on sale.
- Sat, June 8, 6.05pm – Working in the Lineage of the Laureates: Simon Armitage in conversation with
Katherine Rundell. - Sun, June 9, 10.30am – Poet and Polymath: Simon Armitage in conversation with Olivia O’Leary.
Wed, June 12, time tba – LYR at Manchester’s Festival of Libraries, Central Library. St Peter’s Square, M2 5PD. Full announcement by festival in early May.
Thurs, June 13, 7.00pm – Simon Armitage + LYR, Leeds Lit Fest, Leeds Library, 18 Commercial Street, LS1 6AL. Poetry reading followed by LYR performance. Tickets on sale.
Fri, June 14, 7.30pm – LYR in Stamford, Stamford Arts Centre, Lincs PE9 2DL. Tickets on sale.
Mon, June 27, 7.00pm – Simon Armitage in Conversation, Faber & Faber, The Bindery, London, EC1N 8HN. Fabers Members event. Join (for free) to unlock. Sold out
Fri, July 5, 7.30pm – LYR at Alton Arts Festival, Alton Assembly Rooms, Hampshire GU34 1BA. Tickets on sale. Sold out
Sat, July 6, 6.00pm – Simon Armitage: Blossomise at Ledbury Poetry Festival, HR8 2AA. Tickets on sale.
Fri, July 26, 7.00pm – LYR at Deer Shed, Topcliffe, North Yorks. Tickets on sale.
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Tues, Sept 24, 8.00pm – Simon Armitage at Marine Theatre, Church St, Lyme Regis DT7 3QB. Tickets on sale.
Wed, Sept 25, 8.00pm – Cabaret Voltaire: Simon Armitage – St Marys Church, Bruton, Somerset, BA10 0EB. Tickets on sale.
Thurs, Sept 26, 8.00pm – Cabaret Voltaire: Simon Armitage – St Mary’s Church, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5NN. Tickets on sale.
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Broadcasts still available
BBC Radio 4, Larkin Revisited. Across ten programmes and ten Philip Larkin poems, Simon Armitage finds out what happens when he revisits and unpicks Larkin’s work in Larkin’s centenary year (2022).
BBC Radio 4, The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed in which the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage talks to guests about life, language and music in his shed.
BBC Radio 4,The Ballad of Eldon Street – an unnatural history. A new form of radio ballad to mark the centenary of Radio Drama on the BBC. The story of this iconic Barnsley street told by the people who know it best, interwoven with specially composed songs written by LYR – Simon Armitage, Patrick J Pearson and Richard Walters.
BBC Radio 4, Poet Laureate in the Arctic. Considering himself a nature poet and with a geography degree, Simon Armitage pledged to put the environment at the heart of his thinking when he became Poet Laureate in 2019. In this 2023 series he travels to The Arctic to see for himself what’s going on in this part of the world which is so crucial to the climate change debate.
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