Simon Armitage (born May 26, 1963 in Huddersfield) is a British poet, playwright and novelist. He has lectured in originative writing at a University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, where he dwells, & at a University of Iowa.

When very much act inside film, radio & television, & much of promulgated poetry, Armitage wrote Entirely Points Northerly (1999), the collection of essays on the northward of England. A novel Little Green Human followed within 2001, & another novel, White Stuff within 2004.

Bibliography
Poetry
Zoom!, collection (1989) Xanadu, collection (1992) Child, collection (1992) — Winner of the 1992 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Foremost Collection. Book of Matches, collection (1993) 'A Dead Sea Poems, collection (1995) 'Cloud Cuckooland, collection (1997) "Killing Time (poem)", g-line verse form, licensed for the Millennium (1999) Selected Poems, collection ([[2001) The Universal Home Doctor and Travelling Songs, collections published together (2002)

Novels
Little Green Man (2001) White Stuff (2004)

Other
Moon Country, co-written with Glyn Maxwell (1996) Eclipse, stage play (1997) All Points North, essays/"travel guide" (1999) Mister Herakles, stage play (2000) Jerusalem'', stage play (2005)