Alice Oswald elected as new Oxford Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald is a multi-award-winning poet whose accolades include the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012 and the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize, which she won for her seventh collection of poems, Falling Awake. She will succeed Simon Armitage – the UK’s new Poet Laureate – as Oxford Professor of Poetry, taking up post on 1 October 2019.
‘The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time’ The English Faculty is proud to present the Inaugural Lecture of the Merton Professor of Language and Literature Wednesday 23 October 2019, 5.30pm Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty All welcome!
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23 Oct Inaugural Lecture - Merton Professor of Language and Literature Wednesday 23 October,Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
1 Nov Society for Novel Studies - Biennial Conference: The Novel's New Worlds Abstract Deadline: 1 November 2019,St. John's College, University of Oxford Abstract Deadline: 1 November 2019
2 Nov ‘Every man a liar’: truth, text, rhetoric Day conference Saturday 2 November 2019 Corpus Christi College, Oxford Saturday 2 November
10 Nov 18th century study day speakers required - Wantage 11th November Abstract Deadline: Abstract Deadline:
Stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too – but they thought it only afflicted ‘brain-workers’ Monday 23 September
