[New-Poetry] poet of the opera

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_http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1176952006_ 
(http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1176952006) 
The  poet-tree of life
AIDAN SMITH

HE BUNKED off to write novels and  plays and to make films, but his first 
love - not counting rock 'n' roll, which  is where he really wishes he plied his 
trade - is poetry. All of which probably  explains, in a roundabout way, why 
Simon Armitage just had to get that opera out  of his system. 
 
"It's very long trousers, isn't it?" he says of The Assassin Tree, which  
will be world-premiered at the Edinburgh Festival. Extremely long trousers. 
 
Armitage is a post-punk rhythm guitarist wannabe waiting for it to be 1978  
all over again. An expert rhymer who every day tries to better the Undertones'  
marrying of "cabbage" with "University Challenge" but knows he never will. 
The  secret fifth member of the Fire Engines, one of Edinburgh's greatest-ever  
combos. 
 
 
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