Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna (Professor of Poetry lecture with A.E. Stallings)

A. E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture will be on: 'Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land'. The talk will take place at Examination Schools in Oxford. 

All welcome; no booking required. Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

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.