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Also Known As	Simon Robert Armitage
Born	May 26, 1963 (age 61) • Huddersfield • England
Title / Office	poet laureate (2019-)
Notable Works	“All Points North” • “Book of Matches” • “Gig: The Life and Times of a Rock-Star Fantasist” • “Kid” • “Killing Time” • “The White Stuff,” • “Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus the Corduroy Kid” • “Walking Home”

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W.S. Merwin

American poet

Andrew Lang

British scholar

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Robert Graves

British writer

Plomer

William Plomer

South African writer

Michael Frayn

British author and translator

C. Day-Lewis, 1968.

C. Day-Lewis

British poet

Sylvia Townsend Warner

British author

Maurice Baring

British author

Rex Warner

British writer

Sir Edward Howard Marsh

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D.J. Enright

British poet

John Banim

Irish author

Portrait of poet Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope

English author

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

Anne Carson

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author

Albert Wendt

Samoan writer

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