Poetry in the Age of Absolutely Everything

Simon Armitage is the British Poet Laureate as well as a broadcaster, playwright, novelist and the author of three best-selling volumes of non-fiction. He has published over 20 collections of poetry from his first, Zoom, in 1987 to his most recent, Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems in 2020. After translating late 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to front-page reviews across two continents, his translation of Pearl (another Medieval English poem thought to be of the same anonymous author responsible for Gawain) won the 2017 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Armitage writes and records with the band LYR and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.

Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic. Her books are A Kinder Sea, Vanishing Point and the chapbook Seastrands. She was Poetry Editor with University of Queensland Press for a decade and edited Thirty Australian Poets.