![]() ![]() ![]() He has a knack for connecting with people, which is good because his well-being over the next weeks depends upon it. He is one of our most popular and admired poets, the creator of verse that is subtle and deep but direct and immediate. “I am a bit knackered,” says Armitage, in a soft lilt familiar from the documentaries he presents for the BBC. He has come 11 miles today, through a heat haze that suits the surfers and sunbathers but is not so great for a 50-year-old Yorkshireman in hiking boots, long trousers and a polo shirt, with a pack on his back. His cheeks are red with the effort of walking and his day-old beard is smeared white with sun cream. “It’s hot out there,” says Simon Armitage, his famously boyish fringe plastered to his forehead by sweat. The next Poet Laureate Simon Armitage went on a walk, leaning on the hospitality of strangers and saying poems out loud for his keep. ![]()
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