Poems for the Speed of Life

Ep. 75: "⁠It Aint What You Do It’s What It Does to You", by Simon Armitage

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This is Episode 75 of Poems for the Speed of Life.

Today's poem is "⁠It Aint What You Do It’s What It Does to You", by Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage is the British Poet Laureate. He has published more than 20 collections of poetry, starting with Zoom! in 1989.

The poem in this episode is one of his “Marsden Poems”, which were gathered together in his 2020 book Magnetic Field, a collection which centres around his home village of Marsden in West Yorkshire. (A note on the text: he mentions Black Moss, which is a reservoir high in the Pennines near Marsden.)

You can read the poem here.

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