Professor of Poetry Lecture: ‘Repetition is a Form of Change', An Oblique Strategy in Poetry

The next Professor of Poetry lecture will take place on 9 May at 5.30pm at Examination Schools, Oxford. The title of the talk is: ‘Repetition is a Form of Change', An Oblique Strategy in Poetry.

No booking is required; seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. This is a public lecture and everyone is welcome.

A.E. Stallings is an American poet who studied Classics at the University of Georgia and Oxford. She has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, and most recently, Like, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius's The Nature of Things (in rhyming fourteeners!), Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. A selected poems, This Afterlife, is just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.