Alicia Stallings

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Poetry with A.E. Stallings

Poetry with A.E. Stallings

Oxford Professor of Poetry 2023-27, American poet A.E. Stallings' work is known for sharp wit, inventiveness, and using classical...

Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
Rhyme as Experiment/Rhyme as Alchemy	Michaelmas term Professor of Poetry Lecture	Alicia Stallings	19 January, 2026
Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry	Professor of Poetry lecture – Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry	Alicia Stallings	20 May, 2025
What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation	What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation (Professor of Poetry lecture, Feb 2025)	Alicia Stallings	25 February, 2025
Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes	Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes (Professor of Poetry lecture, Nov 2024)	Alicia Stallings	4 December, 2024
Pirates, Poets, and "Plagiarism"	How Lord Byron translated, and was translated by, Greek poetry and reality.	Alicia Stallings	17 May, 2024
Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land	A.E. Stallings gave a lecture as the Oxford Professor of Poetry on 15 February 2024. She talked on Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land	Alicia Stallings	20 February, 2024
The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation	A.E. Stallings gave her inaugural lecture as the Oxford Professor of Poetry on 20 November 2023. She talked on 'The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation'.	Alicia Stallings	23 November, 2023
'Poets in Purgatory' Video	Contemporary poets read from their translations of the Purgatorio and from their poems about Dante.	Jane Draycott, Steve Ellis, Andrew Fitzsimons, Lorna Goodison, Peter Hainsworth, Nick Havely, Angela Jarman, Jan Kemp, Jamie McKendrick, Bernard O'Donoghue, Alicia Stallings, Patrick Worsnip	17 December, 2021