What with work commitments, world events, and the unputdownable book I’m reading at the moment, I didn’t get round to looking at this video of Alice Oswald delivering her first lecture as Oxford Professor of Poetry until day 21. It’s only an hour, and if you are interested in the relationship between poetry and water, as I am, it’s definitely worth making time for. She shares a number of lovely poems with us, and she quotes from, and analyses sections of, Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad. Two poems I feel I really should know better. Oswald has now given me a way in to them, and I hope, when things calm down a bit, maybe in the spring when I can get out to walk again, to find audio versions to listen to.