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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11 Oct Exhibition: Room 103 Friday 11 October,English Faculty Foyer, St Cross Building, Manor Road, Oxford, OX1 3UL
17 Oct 'Hanif Kureishi: What Happened?' 17 October Event, Asia House Abstract Deadline: Abstract Deadline:
17 Oct The Sous-Oeuvre and Digital Scholarly Editing: Voltaire in Beckett’s Books Thursday 17 October,Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College.
21 Oct 'Thomas Becket: Life, Death, and Legacy' Abstract Deadline: 21 October 2019,Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Abstract Deadline: 21 October 2019
23 Oct Inaugural Lecture - Merton Professor of Language and Literature Wednesday 23 October,Lecture Theatre 2, English Faculty, St Cross Building, Manor Road
Stress caused sleeplessness for the Victorians too – but they thought it only afflicted ‘brain-workers’ Monday 23 September
