I've read Armitage on and off since the mid nineties when he was on the English GCSE syllabus and I took a bunch of sixth formers to see him in Manchester. I kind of get him but I am not sure how the language always ends up cancelling out the underlying idea of the poetry - certainly his early work builds stuff up to then have the kid in him kick them down. They are his blocks so he has every right I suppose. ( )