An Evening with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage ‘His verse is immediate, entertaining, engaged with the world.’ Independent on Sunday. Join the Poet Laureate for this very special evening of readings, and book-signing. Simon Armitage introduces and reads a selection of his own poems. He also includes Robert Frost’s Iris by Night marking the 150th Anniversary of Frost’s birth. The poem depicts the spiritual experience that Edward Thomas and Frost had while walking on the Malvern Hills.