Editing Simon Armitage (section)

== Personal life ==

Armitage lives in the [[Holme Valley]], [[West Yorkshire]], close to his family home in Marsden.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stywiz.bookcrossing.com/journal/3956585 |title=All Points North |via=BookCrossing.com |access-date=22 September 2014}}</ref> His first wife was Alison Tootell: they married in 1991.<ref name="IWWiP 2004">{{cite encyclopedia |chapter=Armitage, Simon |title=International Who's Who in Poetry |date=2004 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=58 |isbn=9781857432695 |edition=13th |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EcinRfSQImAC&pg=PA58}}</ref> He then married radio producer Sue Roberts; they have a daughter, Emmeline, born in 2000.<ref>{{cite news |title=Simon Armitage: 'I'm quite boyish in my outlook' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/simon-armitage-im-quite-boyish-in-my-outlook-1843591.html |work=The Independent |date=18 December 2009 |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref> Emmeline won the 2017 SLAMbassadors national youth [[poetry slam]] for 13-18-year-olds.<ref>{{cite web |title=SLAMbassadors 2017 winners announced |url=https://slam.poetrysociety.org.uk/blog/slambassadors-2017-winners-announced/ |work=SLAMbassadors |date=19 November 2017 |access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref> Continuing in both her father's and grandfather's tradition, she is a member of the [[National Youth Theatre]] and a singer.<ref>{{cite web |title=Emmeline Armitage |url=https://soundcloud.com/emmelinearmitage |work=[[SoundCloud]]|access-date=20 May 2019}}</ref>

He is a supporter of his local football team, [[Huddersfield Town A.F.C.|Huddersfield Town]], and refers to it many times in his book ''All Points North'' (1996). He is also a [[birdwatcher]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kellaway |first1=Kate |title=To a birdwatcher, one glimpse, one moment is happiness enough |url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/nov/22/birdwatching-popularity-kate-kellaway |access-date=27 May 2020 |work=The Observer |date=22 November 2009}}</ref>