Simon Armitage reading An Accommodation - The Guardian

In the first of a new series of poets reading their own work to camera, Simon Armitage presents An Accommodation, from his 2010 collection Seeing Stars, a tale of estranged partners dividing their shared space with a net curtain

[@marcmcginty3976]

The mellifluous Tyke tones of Yorkshire's and Britain and Ireland's hardest working and tireless post punk beat poet Simon Armitage CBE...hats off Sir and thankyou for your untiring and quite excellent and exquisite spirit and soul work ... =D...ps love the Husker Du reference ...

[@djanitatiana]

Well, I'm off to search You Tube for a Hüsker Dü clip having thought about them for the first time in 30 years.. Great poem, beautiful reading.

[@josephcollins6033]

Well, only my second hearing of one of his poems. I can't imagine not hearing and SEEING him recite/act/live his work. Thank you.

[@poem_kym9406]

💔 Beautifully harrowingly

[@stephensmythe2372]

Excellent. I wonder if this was inspired by an episode of Steptoe & Son in which dad and son divided the house.

[@poem_kym9406]

Stephen Smythe would love to think so.....

[@robertjordan355]

How does a culture go from Keats to this? Ffs.

[@griffinloiselle2239]

What do you mean by that?

[@polychenko]

Go and have a wash, for christ's sake