12 Episodes

  1. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

    Published: 17/05/2019

  2. 'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness

    Published: 28/01/2019

  3. Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Published: 23/11/2018

  4. Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

    Published: 17/05/2018

  5. Like, Elizabeth Bishop

    Published: 20/03/2018

  6. The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.

    Published: 15/11/2017

  7. 95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry

    Published: 19/05/2017

  8. We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'

    Published: 14/03/2017

  9. Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld

    Published: 14/11/2016

  10. On Lists

    Published: 18/05/2016

  11. Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '

    Published: 8/04/2016

  12. The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet

    Published: 8/04/2016

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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.

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