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Simon Armitage Interview Conducted by Mike Alexander in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, during the sixth annual San Miguel Poetry Week, Monday, January 7, 2002. Sonnet Central The first thing I noticed in Selected Poems was that even in the one piece that would, say, qualify as a sonnet, you play freely with the rhyme and with meter, and it started me wondering how things are in north England ...