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.
Dylan Thomas: A Poet's Guide
(Self)
Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey
(Host)
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
The Pendle Witch Child
(Himself - Presenter)
BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Speeches That Shook the World
(Self - Presenter)
A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go?
Art That Made Us
(Self - Poet Laureate, Translated Pearl. 2016)
Winter Walks
(Self)
Building Sights
(Self - Presenter)
Richard Osman's House of Games
(Self - Panellist)
Climate of Change
(Writer)
A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go?
(Writer)
Gods and Monsters: Homer's Odyssey
(Writer)
The Not Dead
(Writer)
The Raft of the Medusa
(Writer)
Out of the Blue
(Writer)
Songbirds
(Writer)
BBC Four Presents: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(Writer)
Drinking for England
(Writer)
Feltham Sings
(Writer)
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
(Writer)
Last Words
(Writer)