Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Simon Armitage
Born: May 26, 1963 (age 61)
Bio: Simon Robert Armitage is an English poet, playwright and novelist. He is currently a Professor at the University of Sheffield.
Known for:
- Book of Matches (1993)
- Paper Aeroplane: Selected Poems 1989–2014 (2014)
- The Dead Sea poems (1995)
- The Shout (2005)
- All Points North Yorkshire (1998)