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Poetry with Simon Armitage

Oxford University

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.

  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    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.
    17 May 2019, 2:38 pm
  • 1 hour 6 minutes
    '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.
    28 January 2019, 12:28 pm
  • 57 minutes 12 seconds
    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 he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
    23 November 2018, 1:39 pm
  • 1 hour 5 minutes
    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".
    17 May 2018, 3:41 pm
  • 1 hour 4 minutes
    Like, Elizabeth Bishop
    Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage delivers a lecture on the american writer and poet Elizabeth Bishop.
    20 March 2018, 2:50 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    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.
    15 November 2017, 2:35 pm
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
    Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage gives his sixth public lecture. Held on 16th May 2017.
    19 May 2017, 2:48 pm
  • 59 minutes 6 seconds
    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.
    14 March 2017, 12:34 pm
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
    Simon Armitage's fourth public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.
    14 November 2016, 2:23 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    On Lists
    Simon Armitage's third public lecture as Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford.
    18 May 2016, 12:37 pm
  • 1 hour 34 seconds
    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.
    8 April 2016, 2:01 pm
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