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Joanna Preston: Tasmanaut Poet

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Tag: Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Posted on 19 May 200919 May 2009

Ruth Padel, Oxford Professor of Poetry

Hooray hooray for the month of May! Another first – Oxford University have finally elected a woman as Professor of Poetry! Ruth Padel, great-great-grandaughter of Charles Darwin (and cousin of my fellow Glamorganite, Emma Darwin). Her election comes somewhat soured by the late withdrawal of Nobel laureate, Derek Walcott, but you can read about that …

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How do The English Romantics, Dead Poets, Examining (one of) the Ockhams, Irish Poets, Ekphrastic Poetry in the Gallery and The End of the Line sound? Stay tuned for details …

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