Professor of Poetry

Alice Oswald's final lecture as the English Faculty's Professor of Poetry.

A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Hilary Term 2023

A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Michaelmas 2022. The title of the talk is: Meandering Fortune-graphs – a c... Read more

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 ... Read more

It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about l... Read more

This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the stra... Read more

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