Overview
Simon Armitage
Known For
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Documentary exploring Ted Hughes, one of the greatest poets of...
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and...
Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide
Famous for his womanising, drinking and tragic death, Dylan Thomas...
Speeches That Shook the World
Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not...
Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey
Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was...
The Making of King Arthur
Poet Simon Armitage traces the evolution of the Arthurian legend...
BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Poet Simon Armitage goes on the trail of one of...
Biography
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.