Simon Armitage in conversation with Felicity Plunkett

Simon Armitage is appearing at the University of Sydney as a guest of the Creative Writing Program and Red Room Poetry Month. Simon will be in-conversation with Sydney poet Felicity Plunkett.

Simon Armitage is the UK Poet Laureate (2019-2029) and Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. He was formerly elected to serve as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford for 2015-2019. He has received numerous awards for his poetry, song-writing, radio and television work, and is the author of the bestselling non-fiction works All Points North, Walking Home and Walking Away. For more information please visit: https://www.simonarmitage.com/

Felicity Plunkett is a poet, critic and editor living on Wangal land. She is the author of A Kinder Sea (UQP), Vanishing Point (UQP) and the chapbook Seastrands (Vagabond). She edited Thirty Australian Poets (UQP). She is a widely-published essayist and critic and finalist in the 2024 Walkley’s Pascall Prize for Cultural Criticism. 

Please join us for this special event hosted by Dr Toby Fitch, poet and Lecturer in Creative Writing, presented in partnership with Red Room Poetry as part of Poetry Month 2024: https://redroompoetry.org/projects/poetry-month/