Rita Dove to give The Poetry Society Annual Lecture 2015

Rita Dove to give The Poetry Society Annual Lecture 2015

Each year since 2007, after the inaugural December lecture series in 2005, The Poetry Society has commissioned an annual lecture, given by a prestigious poet on an aspect of contemporary poetry. Often with the aim of bringing lesser-heard voices to the UK, past lecturers have included Anne Carson, Les Murray and Charles Simic.

Rita Dove, Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate, will give the 2015 Poetry Society Annual Lecture. 
Presented in association with Birmingham Literature Festival and Writing West Midlands.

Rita Dove made history when she became the first African-American Poet Laureate. In this lecture, she will look at the poet’s role in re-shaping, reframing and reimagining history, interweaving her talk with poems.

Rita Dove – ‘How does a shadow shine? Poetry, Music & the Underside of History’
The Poetry Society Annual Lecture 2015 will be at

King’s College London (13 Oct)

University of Liverpool (20 Oct) 

Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (22 Oct) 

University of Edinburgh (23 Oct)

Full details can be found on The Poetry Society website