the day job you are by definition a roaring success, but even by such modest standards, [Simon] Armitage's rise through the ranks of British poetry was remarkable. From 1989 onwards, he published rapidly: a collection every two years or so and a showering of awards and prizes, followed by commissions, residencies, anthologies, invitations to appear on radio, theatre, television. His poems were enjoyed by pundits and public alike: Sean O'Brien called him "the first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity". Northern and vernacular, dramatic and jaggedly witty, he immediately established his distinctive style.from Sarah Crown: The Guardian: A life in writing: Simon Armitage
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