Poets hand translation over to ghosts

In her inaugural lecture, Professor Anna Jackson looks at how different poetry is from other forms of communication. 

Reading poems by six poets, from Catullus to Jackson McCarthy, Professor Jackson considers what it is to be a poet—the role of the body and the pleasures of disembodiment, translation as both disappearance and revelation, reading as a form of espionage, how a poem travels, where it goes, and how its transmission and reception makes ghosts of both poet and reader.

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