Poet Laureate Simon Armitage will visit Orkney later this spring as part of his nationwide Laureate’s Library Tour, with Orkney Library & Archive selected as the final stop of the 2026 programme. The visit will take place on Tuesday 19 May 2026 when Simon Armitage will deliver a free public poetry reading at the library in Kirkwall. The tour sees the Poet Laureate visiting libraries across the UK using the alphabet as a guide, with this year’s r…
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