Simon Armitage: New Cemetery

A local beauty spot becomes a graveyard; a poet walks its boundary.

Today, UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage discusses and performs from his latest collection, New Cemetery, in which the new graveyard near his West Yorkshire home inspires a radiant, wry meditation on grief, nature, and time.

Hear one of our finest poets of landscape, loss, and the strange comedy of being alive, reflect on changing landscapes, personal loss, and the life-enhancing power of poetry.

Chaired by Peggy Hughes.