# Alice Oswald

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Lines by Alice Oswald

It's fifty years since the publication of From the Life and Songs of the Crow (by Ted Hughes). This is a lecture about lines and other sound barriers and how Crow flies straight through them. Alice Oswald is the current Professor of Poetry at the Faculty of English. She took up her post in Septemb…

Interview with Water

This is the first ever online lecture by a Professor of Poetry at Oxford. In the lecture, Alice Oswald explores the strange connection between water and grief.

The Art of Erosion

Inaugural Lecture of Alice Oswald, Professor of Poetry, held at the University of Oxford Exam Schools.

Yann Martel

The much-loved Canadian writer and former Booker Prize winner, Yann Martel, speaks to Take Four Books this week about his new novel, and first for a decade - Son Of Nobody - and together with presenter James Crawford, they explore its connections to three other literary works. The book follows a cl…

Episode Twenty-Four: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie

Send us Fan Mail Celebrating National Poetry Month and Earth Day: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie Show Notes for Poetry Sustains 4/15/26    Maryam and I read and discuss the following poems:  “A Short Story of Falling” by Alice Oswald “Ichthysaur Speaks: Notes from the Benthos” by Kyle E Miller/…

Episode Twenty-Four: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie

Send us Fan Mail Celebrating National Poetry Month and Earth Day: Poetry Sustains with Maryam Barrie Show Notes for Poetry Sustains 4/15/26    Maryam and I read and discuss the following poems:  “A Short Story of Falling” by Alice Oswald “Ichthysaur Speaks: Notes from the Benthos” by Kyle E Miller/…

Valeria Luiselli

Presenter James Crawford speaks to award-winning Mexican American novelist and essayist Valeria Luiselli about her latest novel, Beginning Middle End, and its three key literary influences. In the novel, a mother and her twelve-year-old daughter travel across a wildfire-stricken Sicily in search o…

The Creative Life in Motion: Becoming

In this episode we continue with the subject of change and focus on becoming. Catherine reads Alice Oswald’s poem “Flies” and we discuss cut endings. Jessica gives us a sneak preview of her second novel Bernice and the Wild Waters which asks the question: how do we navigate the storms of our lives?…

Poems that shake up autumn from Contains Strong Language

Ian McMillan brings you poems and poets to shake up autumn from the Contains Strong Language Festival. Ian's guests, Alice Oswald, Paul Farley, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Liz Berry tread through the mellow fruit of John Keats' Ode to Autumn, but then turn their eyes and ears towards other surprising…