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C.K. Williams, Annual Lecture - On Being Old

PLEASE NOTE: Online booking is now closed, although tickets will be available on the door this evening. 

Thursday 26 May at 7pm
Beveridge Hall, Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
Tickets: £12, £8 Concessions / Poetry Society Members

Influential American poet C.K. Williams, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, makes a special trip to the UK to deliver the Poetry Society Annual Lecture: 'On Being Old'.  His lively and provocative lecture is interspersed with dramatic new poems exploring his changing relationship with the great poets of history, from Wyatt, Wordsworth and Pushkin to Bishop, Auden and Lowell.

For the first time, the event will also be presented in two other UK cities, in partnership with Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (25 May) and the University of Liverpool's Kenneth Allott Lecture (13 October) when Williams returns with an expanded meditation on his theme. For more information about the Poetry Society Annual Lecture at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts visit www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla For the Poetry Society Annual Lecture at the University of Liverpool contact jgaywood@liverpool.ac.uk.

This is a key occasion in the Society's calendar, and early booking is recommended. To book for the London lecture click 'Buy Tickets' on the right.

Wine for the London event has been kindly donated by The Hess Collection, part of Hess Family Estates. Imported by: Enotria www.enotria.co.uk 

C.K. Williams photo credit: Tineke de Lange