Frequently run now in collaboration with The Poetry Society, it enables an eminent poet to give a public talk and reading. Lecturers have included Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Terence Hayes, Don Mee Choi, Denise Riley, and Anne Carson.
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Diane SuessBurlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in PoetryMonday 25 November, 2025 |
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About Professor Kenneth Allott
Professor Kenneth Allott (1912-1973) was born in Glamorganshire, and was later brought up on Tyneside. He studied English at Durham, and Oxford, eventually taking up a post at Liverpool in 1948 and becoming the A.C.Bradley Professor of Modern English Literature in 1964.
An inspirational teacher, and a well-known and highly-respected poet of the 1930s, Allott published two collections of poetry: Poems (1938) and The Ventriloquist’s Doll (1943) as well as plays, and a book on Jules Verne. Between 1936 and 1939 he was an editor of New Verse. His anthology, English Verse (1950, revised 1962) was a formative book for many later poets. A definitive edition of his Collected Poems was published in 2008.
