Professor of Poetry Inaugural Lecture - The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation
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.

All welcome; no booking required. Seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Date: 20 November 2023, 17:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Speaker: A E Stallings (Poet)
Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editor: Belinda Clark