6 Episodes

  1. Repetition is a Form of Change: An Oblique Strategy in Poetry

    Published: 5/20/2025
  2. What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence, and Imitation

    Published: 2/25/2025
  3. Upping the ante: how word choice, quotation and allusion in poems raise the stakes

    Published: 12/4/2024
  4. Pirates, Poets, and "Plagiarism"

    Published: 5/17/2024
  5. Mr Eugenides after the Burning of Smyrna: George Seferis and The Waste Land

    Published: 2/20/2024
  6. The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation

    Published: 11/23/2023

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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.