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Poems can inspire us to appreciate nature and spark positive action - Simon Armitage’s new anthology does both

Poems can invite us to appreciate the beauty around us, while motivating us to take action to protect it. Blossomise, a collection by the UK’s poet laureate Simon Armitage, celebrates the arrival of spring and the importance of nature in our lives.

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Increasing diversity among leaders in football is more than a moral priority

Diverse businesses perform better – so why is sport so slow in appointing leaders from across every section of society?

The Guardian - UK

Simon Armitage: ‘You’re not going to get me to say anything bad about any bird’

As part of Australian Poetry Month, the UK’s poet laureate shares his least favourite word and his most controversial pop culture opinion

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National Trust appoints first writer in residence at Brimham Rocks

Natalie Anastasia Davies to create works inspired by the ‘mysterious rock formations’ at North Yorkshire site

The Guardian - UK

Simon Armitage: Poets can fight climate crisis by making us spellbound by nature

Writer tells Hay festival about his new book, Blossomise, and his hopes to inspire people to preserve the natural world

The Guardian - UK

Simon Armitage releases spring-themed poetry collection celebrating blossom

Poet laureate produces 10 poems, haiku and a musical EP, working with National Trust as it renews its blossom campaign

The Guardian - UK

In brief: Invisible Lines; The Owl and the Nightingale; They Fell Like Stars from the Sky – reviews

A wide-ranging look at the world’s borders, a witty update on a medieval poem, and subtly political Palestinian short stories

The Guardian - UK

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Who is in the Royal Box on the third day of Wimbledon?

The Royal Box is usually occupied by members of the royal family, celebrities and public figures

The Independent UK

Hexham Book Festival is under way with big name authors and children's Storyland to come

Guests to annual literary festival, running until April 30, include Robert Hardman, Susannah Constantine, David Dimbleby, Simon Armitage and Alexander McCall Smith

Chronicle Live

‘I’m a CBE, I’m poet laureate so I’m clearly not a republican am I?’: Simon Armitage on his radical roots and rock star dreams

When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?

The Guardian - UK

Simon Armitage savours spring ‘ecstasy and melancholy’ on World Poetry Day

Poet laureate celebrates a plum tree in poem commissioned by the National Trust for its blossom campaign

The Guardian - UK

Flying Scotsman visits Edinburgh to mark 100th anniversary

THE Flying Scotsman surprised travellers as it pulled into the Scottish capital to celebrate 100 years in service.

The National (Scotland)

Flying Scotsman steams into Edinburgh to mark centenary

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage read a poem dedicated to the locomotive and dancers and musicians performed in the station.

The Independent UK

New Simon Armitage poem to mark 100 years of Flying Scotsman

The Poet Laureate described the world-famous locomotive’s ‘rippling bodywork pouring with sweat’.

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Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation?

Poetry has often been a matter of nation building, including in Australia. Who hasn’t learnt by heart at school some verses from My Country (1908) by Dorothea Mackellar?

The Independent UK

Leeds kickstarts Year Of Culture 2023 with a bang

It comes after the city was denied a chance to become European Capital Of Culture after Brexit.

Leeds Live

Leeds 2023 The Awakening visitors in tears and blown away by powerful opening

Today's show at Headingly Stadium kicked off the year-long Leeds 2023 Year of Culture celebrations

The Guardian - UK

Leeds 2023: city to kick off year-long festival with ‘epic’ opening ceremony

Organisers plough on with plans after Brexit meant Leeds missed chance to be European capital of culture

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‘Something for everybody’: Dua Lipa joins Margaret Atwood on Hay festival 2023 lineup

Pop star and Booker prize winner will both appear at the literary festival in Wales next year along with rock duo the Proclaimers and poet laureate Simon Armitage

The Guardian - UK

What connects The Bear star Ebon Moss-Bachrach and poet Simon Armitage?

By a series of cunning connections involving Lena Dunham and Forward prize winner Caleb Femi, we speed all the way from a Chicago diner to the UK poet laureate

The Independent UK

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 Times of India

UK's Poet laureate Simon Armitage honours Queen Elizabeth II with his new poem 'Floral Tribute'

Simon Armitage was appointed as UK's poet laureate in May 2019. And now, after Queen Elizabeth II's death on September 8, 2022, he has written a new poem in honour of the Queen. The poem title 'Floral Tribute' was shared recently by the Royal Family on their social media page.

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 Guardian - AU

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

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