'Witty and profound' writer Simon Armitage to be next Poet Laureate
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The West Yorkshire writer will hold the historic post for the next decade, taking over from Dame Carol Ann Duffy. He has also translated medieval poems about King Arthur and Sir Gawain, retold The Odyssey as a radio play and written Last Days of Troy, a stage play for Shakespeare's Globe and the Manchester Royal Exchange.
He said:"I want to celebrate what's best in poetry and build on the work Andrew Motion and Carol Ann Duffy have done over the last two decades in terms of encouraging and identifying talent, particularly among young people, among whom poetry might be a way forward, an outlet."
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