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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Save the date! Simon Armitage valedictory lecture as Professor of Poetry - 15 May 2019 Wednesday 27 February
