Question
In 2012, this poet published a verse translation of the Alliterative Morte Arthur titled The Death of King Arthur. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this poet whose 2020 collection Magnetic Field focuses on the village of Marsden, West Yorkshire, where he grew up. In 2019, he succeeded Carol Ann Duffy as Poet Laureate of the UK.
ANSWER: Simon Armitage [or Simon Robert Armitage]
[10e] In 2000, Armitage edited an anthology of poems by this fellow Yorkshireman. This author of “The Hawk in the Rain” made major changes to Ariel, a collection by his wife Sylvia Plath.
ANSWER: Ted Hughes [or Edward James Hughes]
[10h] Yorkshire is also the setting of this long Tony Harrison poem about finding his parents’ gravestones defaced by Leeds United hooligans, including graffiti of the title symbol. It was denounced by Mary Whitehouse and the Daily Mail when it was presented on the BBC in 1987.
ANSWER: “V.” [reject “five”]
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