About the season

Contains Strong Language is a major season celebrating the disruptive power of poetry, centred around National Poetry Day on 8 October.

The BBC is putting poetry at the heart of the schedules across its services, with new commissions from many of our major poets.

You can view the trailer below, along with details of just few of the highlights - for more details check out the full schedule or read the BBC press release.

Contains Strong Language: Season Trailer

In introduction to the 2015 season of poets and poetry across the BBC.

Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death
Saturday 10 October: A feature-length documentary about the life and work of the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
Simon Armitage in Conversation with Tony Harrison
Sunday 11 October: Two of Britain's best-known and most popular poets discuss their craft and careers.
Return to Larkinland
Sunday 11 October: AN Wilson revisits the work of Philip Larkin, who is honoured in Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey.
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Sunday 11 October: A tragic story told through a sequence of poems written by Simon Armitage.
Rhymes, Rock & Revolution: The Story of Performance Poetry
Monday 12 October: A film that uncovers the story of the great poetry renaissance of the late 1960s.
The Secret Life of Books
Tuesday 13 October: Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene.

We British
Thursday 8 October: Joined by our greatest poets, Andrew Marr tells the story of poetry across one epic day on Radio 4.
Radcliffe and Maconie
Thursday 8 October: The pair are joined by joined by Salford wordsmith John Cooper Clarke and poet Jo Bell.
Free Thinking: Landmark - Leaves of Grass
Thursday 8 October: Dedicated to one of the classics of American poetry, Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
The Verb
Friday 9 October: Ian McMillan presents a special Verb to celebrate 'undersung' poets from the past.
Sunday Feature: Ginsberg in India
Sunday 11 October: Poet Jeet Thayil uses Ginsberg’s journals to reveal how he was inspired by India.
Full schedule
Find out more about all the programmes in the season.