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Ah, but anything could come out of his mouth! At 04:12 PM 2/21/2010, you wrote: ><< >There's often a very large audience, composed of university and >town, and that might be something to value. > >Not just that, Jamie, but even us poor plebs who finally get to read >the lectures in book form. > >Which is why I'd be delighted with either Prynne or Anne Stevenson, >since neither have, to my knowledge, expressed themselves in the >form demanded by the Oxford Lectures -- lengthy, coherent, regular, etc. > >Which is why I wouldn't vote for Geoffrey Hill (if I had a vote, >which I don't), because he doesn't need the bully-platform aspect of >the Oxford Chair. Though in terms of eminence, poetic achievement, >etc., thoroughly worthy. > >But why not a Scot? Tom Leonard, now there's an idea. He might >even deign to lecture in English ... > >Robin Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press). http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland "Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The Nation