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

A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Hillary Term 2023 ..read more

A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Michaelmas 2022 ..read more

A distracted walkabout with T.S Eliot and others ..read more

This episode will address the challenge to nature poetry ..read more

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 ..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 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 Board at Oxford, said: ‘Poetry plays an important role in our universities and society. It is a place for ref ..read more

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 ..read more

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