12 Episodes

  1. When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

    Published: 5/17/2019
  2. 'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness

    Published: 1/28/2019
  3. Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

    Published: 11/23/2018
  4. Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

    Published: 5/17/2018
  5. Like, Elizabeth Bishop

    Published: 3/20/2018
  6. The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.

    Published: 11/15/2017
  7. 95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry

    Published: 5/19/2017
  8. We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'

    Published: 3/14/2017
  9. Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld

    Published: 11/14/2016
  10. On Lists

    Published: 5/18/2016
  11. Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '

    Published: 4/8/2016
  12. The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet

    Published: 4/8/2016

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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.