{"id":556,"date":"2015-02-22T19:51:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/?page_id=556"},"modified":"2015-02-22T19:51:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T19:51:46","slug":"simon-armitage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/simon-armitage\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Armitage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in West Yorkshire, England, Simon Armitage has a degree in social work and worked as a probation officer in Manchester, England in the 1980s. Armitage is known for his distinctly northern British vernacular and dry wit; in <i>Contemporary Poets<\/i>, Brian Macaskill notes that Armitage&#8217;s poetry brings to mind &#8220;Philip Larkin&#8217;s late-career use of vernacular, slang locutions, and telling obscenities, Armitage often turns the commonplace or, especially, the vulgar phrase to epigrammatic effect.&#8221; In 1999, the New Millennium Experience Company commissioned Armitage to write <i>Killing Time <\/i>in celebration of the new millennium.<\/p>\n<h5><b>To inquire about purchasing a reading series broadside, please contact <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/marbl.library.emory.edu\/about\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>the Rose Library<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/h5>\n<h5><strong><b>Click <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary\/broadsides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>here<\/b><\/a><b> to view the full gallery of reading series broadsides.<\/b><\/strong><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in West Yorkshire, England, Simon Armitage has a degree in social work and worked as a probation officer in Manchester, England in the 1980s. Armitage is known for his distinctly northern British vernacular and dry wit; in Contemporary Poets, Brian Macaskill notes that Armitage&#8217;s poetry brings to mind &#8220;Philip Larkin&#8217;s late-career use of vernacular, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7775,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-556","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7775"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/danowskipoetrylibrary2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}