Armitage, the current Oxford Professor of Poetry and Hay favourite, delivers his Oxford lecture on the connections and contradictions between the art of song-writing and the art of poetry, a topic brought to a head by Bob Dylan’s recent recognition by the Swedish Academy. The paperback edition of Simon Armitage’s eleventh volume of poetry, The Unaccompanied, is published this month, as is Flit, a new collection of poems with accompanying photographs taken by the author, published by Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
