Geoffrey Hill Zinger: Musical Comedy

Friday, April 2, 2010

Musical Comedy

Yes indeed, the plot thickens as Paula Claire enters the competition for the Oxford Professor of Poetry. She favors "concrete poetry," and although you may never have heard of her before, you can listen to some of her poems on-line, and buy more, right from her site.

If this were a competition about poetics for live performance at a Halloween Party, I'd vote for Paula (here's why).

"Now Paula Who? enters the poets' fray" Londoner's Diary, London Evening Standard (March 31, 2010).

paulaclaire.com

University of Oxford, official nominations page (Spring 2010).

International Conferences & Seminars

2008 Keble College, Oxford, "Geoffrey Hill and His Contexts"

2008 Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, "British Poetry 1950-2008 and the Public/Private Divide"

2008 Université de Caen, "Selected Poems from Modernism to Now"

2007 University of Warwick, "Poets Reading Philosophy, Philosophers Reading Poetry"

2005 University of London (ESSE 8), "British & European: The Poetry of Geoffrey Hill"

2003 Université de Caen, "La Poésie de Geoffrey Hill et la modernité"

2002 Université Denis Diderot-Paris VII, "Collage, Montage, Assemblage: Poésie Anglophone"

2001 University of Warwick, "Tradition and Translation: The Work of Geoffrey Hill"