Poetry with Simon Armitage
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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.
Episode të Fundit
12 episode
When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet.
'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
The Hilary Term Professor of Poetry lecture, delivered by Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage.
Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Simon Armitage lectures on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Poet Simon Armitage delivers the Michaelmas Term 2018 lecture entitled 'Damned if...
Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres
Simon Armitage delivers the Trinity 2018 poetry lecture entitled "Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres".
Like, Elizabeth Bishop
Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage delivers a lecture on the american writer and poet Elizabeth Bishop.
The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.
Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage discusses the poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.
95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage gives his sixth public lecture. Held on 16th May 2017.
We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'
Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage gives a lecture about literature, poetry and Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Held on 8th March 2017.
Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
Simon Armitage's fourth public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.
On Lists
Simon Armitage's third public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.
Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '
Simon Armitage's second public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.
The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet
Simon Armitage, professor of poetry, University of Oxford delivers his inaugural lecture.