Armitage's poetry collections include "Book of Matches" (1993) and "The Dead Sea Poems" (1995). He has written two novels, "Little Green Man" (2001) and "The White Stuff" (2004), as well as "All Points North" (1998), a collection of essays on Northern England. He produced a dramatised version of Homer's "Odyssey" and a collection of poetry entitled "Tyrannosaurus Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid" (which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize), both of which were published in July 2006. Many of Armitage's poems appear in the AQA (Assessment and Qualifications Alliance) GCSE syllabus for English Literature in the United Kingdom. These include "Homecoming", "Extract from Out of the Blue", "November", "Kid", "Hitcher", "Remains", and a selection of poems from "Book of Matches", most notably of these "Mother any distance...". His work also appears on CCEA's GCSE English Literature course.