Live Event: Professor of Poetry Lecture

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TORCH is delighted to support the English Faculty to host the Professor of Poetry Lecture 

 

 

Live Online Event: Line by Alice Oswald

Thursday 12 November 2020, 5.00pm-6.00pm​

Watch Event here.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/UvqcHX37s2Q

 

Event Summary:

It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about lines and other sound barriers  and how Crow flies straight through them.

 

Alice Oswald

Alice Oswald is the current Professor of Poetry at the Faculty of English. She took up her post in September 2019. 

 

Alice Oswald’s first two lectures as Professor of Poetry are available online: ‘The Art of Erosion’ and ‘An Interview with Water

Professor Ros Ballaster, Chair of the English Faculty Board at Oxford, said: ‘Poetry plays an important role in our universities and society. It is a place for reflection in language and about language.

‘The election of Alice Oswald sees the tenure of our first female Professor of Poetry. To adopt the words in her own poetry, it is the fulfilment of long balancing “the weight of hope against the light of patience”. Hers is a remarkable, resonant talent and we count ourselves privileged to host her for four years.

 

A new Oxford Professor of Poetry is elected every four years, and their responsibilities include giving a public lecture each term, as well as an oration at the University’s honorary degree ceremony every other year.

 

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