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Oxford Professor of Poetry 2023-27, American poet A.E. Stallings' work is known for sharp wit, inventiveness, and using classical references to talk about modern life. She studied Classics at University of Georgia and Oxford, and 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', Hesiod's Works and Days, and an illustrated 'The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice'. A collection of selected poems, 'This Afterlife', is available from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK.
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| 3 | Pirates, Poets, and "Plagiarism" | How Lord Byron translated, and was translated by, Greek poetry and reality. | Alicia Stallings | 17 May 2024 | |
| 2 | 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 Feb 2024 | |
| 1 | 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 Nov 2023 |