Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has had his latest work engraved on to a replica cancer pill
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage has had his latest work micro-engraved on to the face of a replica cancer pill.
"I'm not a scientist by any means but I imagine what goes on in those labs is as much about trying to imagine a future," he said. He added:"But what I can offer, in the shape of a poem, and in the shape of this little pill - this little magic bullet - is a kind of hope."Armitage was personally affected by the disease after his friend, who was"very much involved in poetry", lost his battle with bone marrow cancer.
He declared this piece was"exactly the kind of project" he had in mind when he when took on the job, which has previously been undertaken by Carole Ann Duffy, Sir John Betjeman and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
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