Citizen 32

Features poetry from Roger McGough, Nick Flynn,Simon Armitage, Helen Clare, George Wallace, Adrian Mitchell, Tony Walsh, Aoife Mannix, Jack Hirschman, Cath Nichols,Dave Morgan, Geraldine Green, Andy Craven-Griffiths, Fiona Durance, Jem Rolls, Fred Johnston, Mike Grover, Jackie Hagan.

Interviews with

Roger McGough, Simon Armitage, Ken Loach,Helen Clare, George Wallace & Nick Flynn. Cover Art by Steven Lawler

Simon Armitage: Home used to mean 'here', now it means 'us'

Simon Armitage speaks about his roots, influences and what home means to him.

You have been labelled a “young poet” and a “northern poet”. Do you accept or reject either label?

Only in coomparison with Homer or Methuselah am I considered young any more. As for being a northern poet, I object to the term if it’s used as a kind of sub-division of poetry as a whole, but if it’s used to describe the nature of my work then I couldn’t really argue with it. My poems couldn’t have been written in Kensington.

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