What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation (Professor of Poetry lecture)

The next Professor of Poetry lecture by A.E. Stallings will take place on 21 February at 5.30pm in Examination Schools. The title of the talk is: What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation.

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.