Thus was born what became known as the Stanza Stones Trail, a 47-mile walk from Armitage’s home town of Marsden in the Colne Valley to Ilkley in Wharfedale. Six poems were written for the ...

This isn’t the first time Simon Armitage has written a poem dedicated to the Queen. To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, he wrote a poem called Queenhood, a seven-part poem ...

Obviously, Philip’s death is Armitage’s ‘occasion to presume to eulogise,’ but the poem’s explicit occasion is ‘the weather in the window this morning.’ By the last stanza ...