Simon Armitage

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain’s greatest poets.

Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. ...

Virginia Woolf said that Homer’s epic poem the Odyssey was ‘alive to every tremor and gleam of existence’. Following the ...