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.

Latest episodes of the podcast Poetry with Simon Armitage

• When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
• 'Undisfigured by False or Vicious Ornaments' - Clarity and Obscurity in the Age of Formlessness
• 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
• Like, Elizabeth Bishop
• The Hawks and the Doves – raptors and rapture in the poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes.
• 95 Theses: On the Principles and Practice of Poetry
• We Need To Talk About Robert: Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature'
• Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld
• On Lists
• Mind the Gap: Omission, Negation and 'a final revelation of horrible Nothingness - '
• The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet