Audio Clips

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Abridged Audio

Armitage and four actors read long extracts from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight at the Cottelsloe Theatre at the National Theatre on the South Bank in London:

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Reading at St Giles Church, London

Armitage was on a bill of four poets reading at St Giles Church in London on the 28th September, 2006. He was introduced by Joan Bakewell. The event was organised by the Poetry Society.

The file is 58Mb, and runs for about 26 minutes.

Armitage has released his work on cassette. All Points North (Penguin) contains Armitage's prose collection read by himself. Wild Blue Yonder (Penguin) is Armitage reading poems from Kid, Book of Matches and the Dead Sea Poems. The Poetry Quartets: 1 from Bloodaxe, features Armitage reading from Zoom!. Also reading their own work are Kathleen Jamie, Jackie Kay and Glyn Maxwell (who co-wrote Moon Country). The collection "Short and Sweet" is edited by Armitage, read by Eileen Atkins, Alex Jennings, Andrew Sachs and Timothy West.

His novel Little Green Man is available on audio cassette from Penguin, read by Stephen Tompkinson. The three CD audio book of Armitage's Radio 4 dramatisation of The Odyssey (2004) is available from BBC Audio and was a BBC bestseller.