Wolfson College and the English Faculty are delighted to announce the award event for this year’s poetry competition for Oxford University postgraduate students.

Please join us for the online award ceremony to hear readings of the shortlisted poems and the comments of the Poetry Prize judges, Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry Alice Oswald, and Professor Bernard O’Donoghue.

The link is: youtu.be/imlR8FmtHg4

The Poetry Prize was set up in memory of the late Professor Jon Stallworthy (1935-2014), poet and Fellow of Wolfson College. The 2022 prize, worth £1000, will be awarded for the best poem on the subject of ‘Sleep-cycles’ submitted by last December’s deadline.