Poetry with Simon Armitage

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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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When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2019 66:46

Simon Armitage delivers his final lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry, reflecting on his own influences as a poet.

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

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2019 66:05

The Hilary Term Professor of Poetry lecture, delivered by Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage.

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

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2018 57:12

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'

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Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 65:44

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

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Like, Elizabeth Bishop

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2018 64:38

Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage delivers a lecture on the american writer and poet Elizabeth Bishop.

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

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2017 61:01

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

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95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2017 63:56

Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage gives his sixth public lecture. Held on 16th May 2017.

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

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2017 59:06

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.

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Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2016 62:56

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

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On Lists

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2016 69:33

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

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

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2016 60:34

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

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The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2016 60:16

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

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