Counterblast! (a manifesto for poetry)

A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Hilary Term 2023 

A professor of poetry talk by Alice Oswald - Michaelmas 2022. The title of the talk is: Meandering Fortune-graphs – a conversation between the Book of Job and David Jones’ In Parenthesis. 

A distracted walkabout with T.S Eliot and others. 

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