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Oxford University Poetry Society

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OUPS was founded in 1946. The society has since been striving to make Oxford a welcoming place for poetry lovers all

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Our friends at Oxford University Poetry Society are co-hosting an event entitled 'Philosophy and Fizz' next Friday! Three academics give informal talks on the intersections between #philosophy and #poetry, followed by a panel discussion and poetry open mic (and prosecco)! facebook.com/events/2115132… #Oxford

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Doctor Olugboyega Oluwarotimi Abayomi-Odubanjo. Gboyega completed his PhD and was awarded his doctorate today. "The poetry written during his PhD is going to have a profound impact on the literary world." Thank you to his supervisors & community for seeing this through šŸ’™šŸ•Š

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Join us for a reading and Q&A with Rooney Prize, Laurel Prize and Eric Gregory Award winning author of Rapture’s Road, out now with Cape penguin.co.uk/books/454043/r… Thursday 22 February, 5:30 PM @ Gulp Fiction Bookshop in the Covered Market Registration docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join us for a reading and Q&A with Rooney Prize, Laurel Prize and Eric Gregory Award winning author of Rapture’s Road, out now with Cape
penguin.co.uk/books/454043/r…

Thursday 22 February, 5:30 PM 
@ Gulp Fiction Bookshop in the Covered Market

Registration
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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Join us tomorrow Tuesday for an exceptional evening at Christ Church with Oxford's own Professor of Poetry. Come along with any and all questions you might have about the art and day-to-day grind of writing poetry. Don't miss a highlight of Hilary term: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Join us tomorrow Tuesday for an exceptional evening at <a href="/ChCh_Oxford/">Christ Church</a> with Oxford's own Professor of Poetry.

Come along with any and all questions you might have about the art and day-to-day grind of writing poetry. 

Don't miss a highlight of Hilary term: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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Tonight's event is free to attend for OUPS members. We will encourage any and all poetic, pedestrian and non-poetical questions. Location: Christ Church, Michael Dummett Lecture Theatre Time: 6 to 7.30pm Registration link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… x.com/oupsox/status/…

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OUPS is opening up a second round of submissions for those of you who didn’t get a chance to submit your songbird sonnets, frog-pond haikus, snakelike acrostics, and anything in between. Submissions are open to all, but they close soonšŸ™ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Art @ Jon Guerdrum

OUPS is opening up a second round of submissions for those of you who didn’t get a chance to submit your songbird sonnets, frog-pond haikus, snakelike acrostics, and anything in between. Submissions are open to all, but they close soonšŸ™
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Art @ Jon Guerdrum
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Oh goodness I don't know. The piece is starting to shape, but really it should have been done tonight and I have to continue to shape and cut tomorrow. I hate being so inefficient. But I guess that is the process of writing, which is also thinking, which is hard.

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Please join us for Alicia E. Stallings' next Professor of Poetry talk THIS THURSDAY (9 May). The title of the talk is 'Pirates, poets, & "plagiarism": How #Byron translated and was translated by Greek poetry & reality'. This is a free public event & all are welcome! No booking required

Please join us for <a href="/ae_stallings/">Alicia E. Stallings</a>' next Professor of Poetry talk THIS THURSDAY (9 May). The title of the talk is 'Pirates, poets, &amp; "plagiarism": How #Byron translated and was translated by Greek poetry &amp; reality'. This is a free public event &amp; all are welcome! No booking required
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Please join our friends over at Creation Theatre here in Oxford to see some George Orwell with a contemporary twist. Last few performances before the show closes this weekend!

Please join our friends over at <a href="/creationtheatre/">Creation Theatre</a> here in Oxford to see some George Orwell with a contemporary twist. Last few performances before the show closes this weekend!
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Come join us this weekend for a plant and poetry workshop led by Bill Kroeger. We will weed, seed, read poetry—and think about companion species. It will take place at 11am this Saturday and last about one hour. Places are limited. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Come join us this weekend for a plant and poetry workshop led by Bill Kroeger. We will weed, seed, read poetry—and think about companion species. It will take place at 11am this Saturday and last about one hour.
Places are limited. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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Join us next week for one of the poetry highlights of Trinity Term in Oxford: an evening with Rachael Allen. The author of God Complex (Faber Books) is curating the new poetry list at Fitzcarraldo Editions. She is also fantastic. Check our NL and stay tuned for registration details

Join us next week for one of the poetry highlights of Trinity Term in Oxford: an evening with Rachael Allen. 

The author of God Complex (<a href="/FaberBooks/">Faber Books</a>) is curating the new poetry list at <a href="/FitzcarraldoEds/">Fitzcarraldo Editions</a>. She is also fantastic.

Check our NL and stay tuned for registration details
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Do words capture war, suffering, displacement? On 23 May, three wonderful authors will be in conversation & read from their work: šŸ–Šļø Bulgarian intellectual Ivan Krastev šŸ–Šļø Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh šŸ–Šļø British-Ukrainian poet charlotte shevchenko knight talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/947f7…

Do words capture war, suffering, displacement? 

On 23 May, three wonderful authors will be in conversation &amp; read from their work: 

šŸ–Šļø Bulgarian intellectual Ivan Krastev
šŸ–Šļø Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh
šŸ–Šļø British-Ukrainian poet <a href="/shevchenkonight/">charlotte shevchenko knight</a>

talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/947f7…
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Can we use words, poetry & literature to go beyond the cold statistics that have become the default way of conveying conflict, war & displacement? Join charlotte shevchenko knight (Cape Poetry), Ivan Krastev (Penguin) & Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Broken Sleep Books) ow.ly/SgWr50RFByK

Can we use words, poetry &amp; literature to go beyond the cold statistics that have become the default way of conveying conflict, war &amp; displacement?

Join <a href="/shevchenkonight/">charlotte shevchenko knight</a> (Cape Poetry), Ivan Krastev (Penguin) &amp; Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Broken Sleep Books) ow.ly/SgWr50RFByK
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Come along to the The Covered Market Oxford this evening with Thirza Wakefield and us for an exceptional chat about the craft of poetry with Fitzcarraldo's own Rachael Allen. Get hold of her latest at Gulp Fiction (and get it signed šŸ˜‰) faber.co.uk/product/978057… x.com/oupsox/status/…

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Join us tonight for a talk by three wonderful authors: Palestinian poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (Writing the Camp) British-Ukrainian poet charlotte shevchenko knight (Food for the Dead) Bulgarian writer Ivan Krastev (The Light that Failed) Faculty of English Alicia E. Stallings x.com/Politics_Oxfor…

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Head over to Ertegun House now if you fancy discussing what it means to combine the languages we speak, to reconsider their boundaries, to bend them--and chat to other poets interested in making hybrids. Starts at 2pm on 37a St Giles, chaired by the wonderful HermƔn Luis ChƔvez

Head over to Ertegun House now if you fancy discussing what it means to combine the languages we speak, to reconsider their boundaries, to bend them--and chat to other poets interested in making hybrids. 

Starts at 2pm on 37a St Giles, chaired by the wonderful HermƔn Luis ChƔvez