A VERTICAL ART

A Vertical Art gathers the expansive and spirited public lectures delivered by Simon Armitage during his acclaimed four-year tenure as Oxford University Professor of Poetry. Armitage tries to identify a 'common sense' approach to an artform that can lend itself to grand statements and vacuous gestures, questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, asserting certain funda mental qualities that separate the genre from near-neighbours such as prose and song lyrics, examining who poetry is written for and its valu...[Read more]