Oxford Poets with Alastair Lack SOLD OUT
Alastair Lack
Sunday, 17 March 2024
2:00pm
2 hours
Meet outside St John’s College Lodge (main entrance), St Giles
£25
Oxford University produced a rich crop of poets in the 20th century – from First World War poets such as Robert Graves and Edmund Blunden, through the ‘pylon poets’ of the 1920s and 1930s (such as WH Auden and Louis MacNeice) to Philip Larkin, Keith Douglas and distinguished contemporary poets, not forgetting, of course, John Betjeman. Enjoy readings from their poetry and prose, from St John’s College to Merton. This walk starts at the main entrance of St John’s College in St Giles, lasts two hours and ends at Christ Church.
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