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'''Simon Armitage'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/17783/Simon-Robert-ARMITAGE|title=Simon Robert ARMITAGE|publisher=Debretts.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> [[Commander of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist. On 19 June 2015, Armitage was elected [[Oxford Professor of Poetry]].<ref name="The Guardian 19 June 2015">{{cite web |last=Flood |first=Alison |title= Simon Armitage wins Oxford professor of poetry election |url= http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/19/simon-armitage-wins-oxford-professor-of-poetry-election | date=19 June 2015|newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |location=London|accessdate=19 June 2015  }}</ref>

'''Simon Armitage'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com/people-of-today/profile/17783/Simon-Robert-ARMITAGE|title=Simon Robert ARMITAGE|publisher=Debretts.com|accessdate=22 September 2014}}</ref> [[Commander of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 1963) is an English poet, playwright and novelist. On 19 June 2015, Armitage was elected [[Oxford Professor of Poetry]].<ref name="The Guardian 19 June 2015">{{cite web |last=Flood |first=Alison |title= Simon Armitage wins Oxford professor of poetry election |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jun/19/simon-armitage-wins-oxford-professor-of-poetry-election | date=19 June 2015|newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |location=London|accessdate=19 June 2015  }}</ref>

Armitage gained only 1,221 votes in the election, in which only a tiny percentage of Oxford graduates took part, as it was so little publicized that 95% of them were not aware of it taking place. Most of the discussion turned on whether the voters should elect a black, homosexual or female candidate, not on the candidates' poetic merits.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11687586/simon-armitage-oxford-professor-of-poetry.html</ref>  

Armitage gained only 1,221 votes in the election, in which only a tiny percentage of Oxford graduates took part, as it was so little publicized that 95% of them were not aware of it taking place. Most of the discussion turned on whether the voters should elect a black, homosexual or female candidate, not on the candidates' poetic merits.<ref>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11687586/simon-armitage-oxford-professor-of-poetry.html</ref>