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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage commissioned to mark BBC’s centenary year

The poems will be broadcast during the BBC’s special week of centenary programming this month.

The Independent UK

Poet laureate Simon Armitage’s tribute to Queen Elizabeth includes her favourite flower

Simon Armitage calls his poem a ‘gift in return’ to Britain’s longest-serving monarch in exchange for a ‘promise made and kept for life’

The Independent UK

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage on ‘personal’ poem for the Queen

Floral Tribute references one of the late monarch’s favourite blooms and takes the form of a double acrostic.

The Independent UK

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Queen’s coffin arrives at palace – as it happened

Queen Elizabeth’s coffin will rest overnight in Bow Room as thousands lines London’s streets

The Guardian - AU

Poignant poem marking death of Queen written by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

Yorkshireman pens Floral Tribute following the passing of Elizabeth II

Wales Online

Prom 33: BBCSO/Wigglesworth review – an evening of fizzing and sparkling mysticism

Matthew Kaner’s mystical new work, the gently glittering Pearl, is effective and engaging, with Roderick Williams its supremely communicative centre

The Guardian - UK

The stunning village an hour from Manchester with a starring role on TV

It’s also home to Great Britain’s largest canal tunnel

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Royal family shares poem in tribute to the late Prince Philip by poet laureate

The Patriarchs – An Elegy shared via royal social media accounts on first anniversary of Duke of Edinburgh’s death

The Guardian - UK

Royal family release elegy for Duke of Edinburgh on anniversary of death

The first anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh’s death has been marked by the royal family with the release of an elegy, written and voiced by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

The Independent UK

The Queen shares touching poetic tribute to Prince Philip a year after his death

The elegy, written by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, was posted to the royal family's social media accounts on Saturday.

Daily Record

Royal family shares poem tribute to Prince Philip on anniversary of his death

The elegy, written by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, was posted to the royal family’s social media accounts on Saturday

Wales Online

Royal family share poem tribute to Prince Philip on anniversary of his death

The elegy, written by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is accompanied by a poignant video showing images from Duke of Edinburgh’s life.

Evening Standard

Rock star Guy Garvey reveals he was inspired to write smash hit in the BATH

The Elbow frontman played the audio file of One Day Like This at his first lecture as a visiting professor in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University

Manchester Evening News

Royal family share poem tribute to Philip on anniversary of his death

The elegy, written by the Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, is accompanied by a poignant video showing images from Philip’s life.

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Royal Family in emotional tribute to Prince Philip one year after his death

The Royal Family shared a poem by Simon Armitage, The Patriarchs – An Elegy, as they paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh on the first anniversary of his death

The Guardian - UK

Poet laureate Simon Armitage writes Ukraine war poem Resistance

Armitage calls his piece a ‘refracted version of what is coming at us in obscene images through the news’

The Guardian - UK

Ode to a Twitter spat: Simon Armitage and John Tiffany’s bird play

Poet laureate joined by theatre director to stage reading of medieval poem The Owl and the Nightingale

The Guardian - UK

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy by Mark Hodkinson review – memoirs of a Rochdale bookworm

This account of a working-class reader, writer and now publisher of Simon Armitage is a love letter to the north and the printed word

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