The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed

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Poet Laureate Simon Armitage talks to guests about life, language and music in his shed.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is a former probation officer, DJ and poet celebrated for his witty and profound take on modern life. He writes in the shed in his garden, and in this podcast he invites guests to join him to talk about poetry, creativity, music, art, sheds, sherry and the countryside.

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The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed: Laura Ashe

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Laura Ashe writer and academic sheds light on the medieval poem Simon's translating.

At this point in the translation of The Owl and the Nightingale, the medieval poem he's working on in the shed, Simon Armitage turns to professor Laura Ashe for some inspiration

Professor Laura Ashe is a historian of English medieval literature, history and culture . She lectures in English at Oxford University.  At this point in his translation of the poem The Owl and the Nightingale, Simon Armitage invites Laura  to help him with some of the final details . From the toilet habits of the nightingale to the Game of Thrones atmosphere of the period, from the hippy ideals of the nightingale to the tut-tutting of the buttoned up owl.

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