Over the course of six short clips, Simon Armitage goes behind the scenes of some of his most famous poems. These clips are from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Suitable for ...

The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, meets a tiger - to help inspire a new animal poem. Is it possible to capture a tiger in a ...

In 2010 the Yorkshire-born Poet Laureate Simon Armitage collaborated with Ilkley Literature Festival to create a series of ...

This isn’t the first time Simon Armitage has written a poem dedicated to the Queen. To mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee earlier this year, he wrote a poem called Queenhood, a seven-part poem ...

They will be inscribed with a poem, titled Balancing Act and written by Mr Armitage earlier this year. Simon Armitage has written a poem titled Balancing Act for the artwork In planning documents ...

SIMON ARMITAGE:'You know, this was a future made by architects. And like most poets, I try and get the form of a poem to somehow represent or resemble its subject matter. So in this poem ...

The poem is told anecdotally and begins with ‘On another occasion’, implying that this account is not the only unpleasant account the soldier has in his memory. He tells how he and ‘somebody ...

Simon Armitage meets Feargal Sharkey, pop star, fisherman, and river campaigner - as well as the poet Daljit Nagra - and explores one of the most remarkable poems ever written about a fish ...

SIMON:Not all of my poems are written from personal experience ... In fact, my response is the poem. Simon Armitage reads his own poem ‘Harmonium’, and analyses the inspiration, themes ...

SIMON:A poem written in the voice of somebody living ... That's the place that the poem is speaking from. Simon Armitage reads and analyses his poem ‘Give’, looking at both its surface and ...

SIMON:This poem is written through the experiences of a soldier ... SPEAKER:Then, and only then, did I come close. Simon Armitage analyses the themes and ideas behind his war poem ‘The Manhunt ...

He's the person who's become separated from the thing he really believed in. Simon Armitage reads his poem ‘The Clown Punk’ and analyses the themes, ideas and language it contains. The film ...