A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Michaelmas 2022. The title of the talk is: Meandering Fortune-graphs – a conversation between the Book of Job and David Jones’ In Parenthesis.

A distracted walkabout with T.S Eliot and others.

This episode will address the challenge to nature poetry.

This is a sleep-talk on the subject of waking up with Sonnet 87 (by Shakespeare) in the background. This talk was given by Alice Oswald on the 25th November 2021.

It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about lines and other sound barriers and how Crow flies straight through them. Alice Oswald is the current Professor of Poetry at the Faculty of English. She took up her post in September 2019. Alice Oswald’s first two lectures as Professor of Poetry are available online: ‘The Art of Erosion’ and ‘An Interview with Water‘ Professor Ros Ballaster, Chair of the English Faculty...

This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief.

Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the Univeristy of Oxford Exam Schools.

Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools.