Poetry with Simon Armitage

By Oxford University

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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.

Episode Date
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
May 17, 2019
'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
Jan 28, 2019
Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Nov 23, 2018
Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
May 17, 2018
Like, Elizabeth Bishop
Mar 20, 2018
The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.
Nov 15, 2017
95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
May 19, 2017
We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'
Mar 14, 2017
Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
Nov 14, 2016
On Lists
May 18, 2016
Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '
Apr 08, 2016
The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet
Apr 08, 2016