The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

The Huddersfield that I like best is a large town with a big heart and an open mind.

Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.