The first of four weekly lectures by distinguished poet Sean O’Brien, Visiting Humanitas-Weidenfeld Professor, is on Tuesday 7th February.
Schedule:
Tuesday 7 February 2017 ‘For dreams are licensed as they never were’. What becomes of the history poem?
Tuesday 14 February 2017 Displacement: Irish poetry and poets of Irish descent in Britain.
Tuesday 21 February 2017 ‘I only am escaped alone to tell thee’ or ‘The Faster We Go the Rounder We Get’.
Tuesday 28 February 2017 In Conversation with Patrick McGuinness
The lectures take place at 5.30 in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre at St Anne’s College. The first lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. All welcome, no need to book.