Kid is the second collection of poems by Simon Armitage, published in 1992.

Simon Armitage is an English poet, playwright and novelist.

[2][3] At the start of his career, and at the time Kid was published, he was working as a probation officer.

[6] She wrote that the book "consolidated his name for technical virtuosity [and] black humour",[6] the voice having "a self-deprecatingly cocky self-centredness.

"[6] In her view, the first poem, "Brassneck", about a murderer, had "brilliant rhyme";[6] but she noted that some, especially poets, "found it less convincing than Zoom!.