Simon Robert Armitage, CBE, FRSL is an English poet, playwright and novelist who was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is also professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and succeeded Geoffrey Hill as Oxford Professor of Poetry when he was elected to the four year part time appointment from 2015–2019.
Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of...
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and...
Famous for his womanising, drinking and tragic death, Dylan Thomas...
Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not...
Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was...
Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend...
Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of...