A Quartet of Wadham Poets

​Doors open at 4.45pm with the talk beginning promptly at 5.00pm. This will be followed by drinks in the Undergraduate Centre Student Lounge at 6.30pm.

Jane has been Fellow in English at Wadham since 2012. As well as numerous academic publications on English poetry of the 15th and early 16th centuries, she has published six collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, and been shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has also worked as a lexicographer and bookbinder on the Oxford English Dictionary.

David read Modern Languages at Wadham, and was Fellow in German at Queen’s College, Oxford between 1991 and 2000. He has published nine collections of poetry, seven volumes of short stories, two novels and many translations from German, French and Greek. He was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2020, and was the co-editor, with his wife, Helen, of the review, Modern Poetry in Translation, from 2004 to 2013.

Hilary read Modern Languages at Wadham. She has published five volumes of poetry with Enitharmon Press and Renard Press, and has been an Eric Gregory award winner, a Hawthornden Fellow and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’s College, London and the British Library. She is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy and was Chairman of the Poetry Society 1992-3.

Grevel read English at Wadham and taught at the University of Manchester, where he became Professor of Romantic and Early Victorian Studies. He is the author of six volumes of poetry with Carcanet, as well as a biography of Charles Williams, and has served as the General Editor of the The Works of Thomas de Quincey, whose biography he has also written. He is a Fellow of the Temenos Academy and of the Wordsworth Trust.