Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes

Schedule

Fri Nov 29 2024 at 05:30 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Examination Schools, University of Oxford | Oxford, EN

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A. E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry lecture will be on: 'Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes'. The talk will take place at Examination Schools in Oxford on 29 November at 5.30pm.
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.
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Examination Schools, University of Oxford, The Watch Workshop, High Street, Oxford, OX1 4XS, United Kingdom,Oxford, Oxfordshire

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