Poetry with Simon Armitage

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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

2019-05-1701:06:463

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

2019-01-2801:06:053

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

2018-11-2357:122

Simon Armitage lectures on the poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Poet Simon Armitage delivers the Michaelmas Term 2018 lecture entitled 'Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

2018-05-1701:05:441

Simon Armitage delivers the Trinity 2018 poetry lecture entitled "Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres".

Like, Elizabeth Bishop

2018-03-2001:04:383

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.

2017-11-1501:01:011

Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage discusses the poems of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.

95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry

2017-05-1901:03:563

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'

2017-03-1459:061

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

2016-11-1401:02:56

Simon Armitage's fourth public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.

On Lists

2016-05-1801:09:332

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 - '

2016-04-0801:00:34

Simon Armitage's second public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.

The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet

2016-04-0801:00:162

Simon Armitage, professor of poetry, University of Oxford delivers his inaugural lecture.

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