{"id":12405,"date":"2025-10-29T08:22:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12405"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T18:39:02","slug":"u-k-poet-laureate-pens-floyd-inspired-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2025\/10\/u-k-poet-laureate-pens-floyd-inspired-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"U.K. poet laureate pens Floyd-inspired poem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/armitage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12406 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/armitage.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Armitage\" width=\"346\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/armitage.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/armitage-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Simon Armitage<\/strong>, U.K.&#8217;s poet laureate, has released &#8220;Dear Pink Floyd,&#8221; a poem inspired by the band&#8217;s 1975 album &#8220;Wish You Were Here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There aren&#8217;t many artistic experiences in the form of noise that send shivers up my spine and make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. But when I put &#8216;Wish You Were Here&#8217; on as a record, and it begins, I get that feeling every single time,&#8221; says Armitage, who is also a professor of poetry at University of Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Armitage&#8217;s recital of &#8220;Dear Pink Floyd&#8221; will be part of the album&#8217;s 50th anniversary release coming Dec. 12. It&#8217;s available now on YouTube:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pXInhwb60SI?si=I0ugiCUQDF_p_T8a\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Armitage, U.K.&#8217;s poet laureate, has released &#8220;Dear Pink Floyd,&#8221; a poem inspired by the band&#8217;s 1975 album &#8220;Wish You Were Here.&#8221; &#8220;There aren&#8217;t many artistic experiences in the form of noise that send shivers up my spine and make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. But when I put &#8216;Wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12405"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12430,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12405\/revisions\/12430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}