Alice Oswald elected as new Oxford Professor of Poetry Ms 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.
Hannah Sullivan wins inaugural John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize Dr Sullivan's debut collection Three Poems already won the TS Eliot Prize in January 2019
ACS English Study Day The English Faculty, Magdalen College and the Oxford African and Caribbean Society (ACS) were thrilled to welcome students from across the country to the first English Study Day for Year 12 students of African and/or Caribbean heritages, on Monday 15th April 2019.
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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
13 Nov The Art of Erosion Wednesday 13 November,Examination Schools Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry
Save the date! Simon Armitage valedictory lecture as Professor of Poetry - 15 May 2019 Wednesday 27 February
