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Water can conform to its container, or it can gather in force as whelming as a wave. What will you choose?
Volume 03: Flourish / Collapse
A journey along the axis of abundance and absence, proliferation and putrescence, life and death
An exploration of geographic location and freedom of action and thought
This issue seeks to answer the question: What does “natural” mean now?
Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in the village of Marsden and lives in West Yorkshire. He is a graduate of Portsmouth University, where he studied Geography. As a post-graduate student at Manchester University, his MA thesis concerned the effects of television violence on young offenders. Until 1994 he worked as a Probation Officer in Greater Manchester. Simon Armitage is the current national Poet Laureate of the UK (2019-2029).
In what ways does nature inspire or inform your work?
Nature is the illusive thing I’m trying to understand and describe using the man-made device called language.
What does it mean to you to be part of a thriving ecosystem?
The alarming aspect is recognising how over-important we’ve become in that system, how easily we can knock it off balance. If “thriving” means “harmonious,” as it should, then embarrassment is what I feel most of the time, in terms of my part in it.
