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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. Professor Oswald's Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Poetry is now available to listen to online.

The 2019-2020 series will be given by Professor Denise Gigante, Professor of English at Stanford University, under the title of 'The Mental Traveller by William Blake'.

28 January 2020: Pilgrims and Cold Earth Wanderers

30 January 2020: The Lost Traveller's Dream: Angels, Spectres, Shadows

4 February 2020: A Fearful Journey: Lions and Tygers

6 February 2020: Spiraling through Eternity in Nets and Trees