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Simon Armitage On Writing Poetry about the Great War

BBC Two

Hay Festival 2014, 

Poet Simon Armitage talks about his new commission for the BBC and the challenge of writing seven poems about the Great War. He will be in conversation with the BBC’s director of Arts, Jonty Claypole, and will be showing clips from his forthcoming documentary. Not for broadcast. The Great War: An Elegy will go out on BBC TWO in the autumn.


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Simon Armitage On Writing Poetry about the Great War