Poetry with Simon Armitage

Poet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford University in 2015. This series features his public engagements.Series image credit Paul Wolfgang Webster.

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
May 17, 2019 – 01:06:46
'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
Jan 28, 2019 – 01:06:05
Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Nov 23, 2018 – 57:12
Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
May 17, 2018 – 01:05:44
Like, Elizabeth Bishop
Mar 20, 2018 – 01:04:38
The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.
Nov 15, 2017 – 01:01:01
95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
May 19, 2017 – 01:03:56
We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'
Mar 14, 2017 – 59:06
Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
Nov 14, 2016 – 01:02:56
On Lists
May 18, 2016 – 01:09:33
Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '
Apr 8, 2016 – 01:00:34
The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet
Apr 8, 2016 – 01:00:16