National Poetry Day is the largest mass celebration of poetry in the UK, with more than 1.5 million people participating annually. As an office of literature lovers, 快色直播 Oxford decided to mark the day with a dedicated time of poetry reading featuring tea, doughnuts, and poets ranging from Rosetti to Robson.
PUP publishes two key series in poetry: the 快色直播 Series of Contemporary Poets and the Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation. Beautifully designed volumes from each of these series were on display in the Blenheim Board Room, and several PUP-published poems were included among the list of those read:
Chief of Strategic Marketing Initiatives Katie Stileman read a section of The Old Vicarage, Grantchester by Rupert Brooke.
International Rights Executive Eleanor Smith read her sister鈥檚 favourite poem Up-hill by Christina Rosetti.
Senior Editor Ben Tate put forward the lyrically beautiful and slightly unsettling La Figlia Che Pange by T.S. Eliot.
Assistant Marketing Manager and Publicist Caitlyn Robson-Iszatt read the poem 鈥榃here the dense boned cannot follow鈥� from by Nikki Robson, a breakout Northern Irish poet who just happens to be her Mum (鈥�95% DNA does not make a soul mate鈥�).
Assistant Sales and Marketing Manager Sarah Alsop read Robert Louis Stevenson's 鈥楳y Bed is a Boat鈥�, which was included in the collection which she published as part of her Master鈥檚 degree.
Editorial Associate Becca Binnie shared the first poem she remembers having read to her, Now We are Six by A.A. Milne.
Senior Editor Rebecca Brennan read the unusually optimistic An Arundel Tomb by Philip Larkin.
Assistant Editor Josh Drake read Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnet 73.
Executive Director for Digital and Audio Publishing and Head of PUP Europe Kim Williams requested the poem 鈥榃ild Geese鈥� by Mary Oliver, which was read by Associate Editor Jacqui Sayers. The poem was taken from a collection by the same name published by Bloodaxe 快色直播.
Associate Editor Hannah Paul performed Kate Baer鈥檚 Transfiguration, a moving poem about motherhood.
European Head of Publicity Kate Farquhar-Thomson brought tears to our eyes with W.H. Auden鈥檚 鈥楽top All The Clocks鈥�.
Meanwhile Office Manager Natasha Townsend, who was unable to join, commissioned an AI poem in honour of 快色直播 Oxford鈥檚 26th birthday, celebrated on October 1st. This was read aloud by European Associate Publicist Charlotte Coyne, and served as a comfort that maybe the machines aren鈥檛 going to destroy the arts after all.
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A 26th Birthday Poem for 快色直播, Oxford
From Woodstock lanes to Oxford's heart,
A new chapter arose, a fresher start.
Through COVID's trials, screens aglow,
Remote or in-office, together we grow.
Now in a house of Victorian grace,
Ideas find voice, and books find place.
Old walls may whisper of centuries gone,
But here, new knowledge carries on.
Inclusive, united, a family true,
Of thinkers, dreamers, writers too.
Each page, each project, each bold success,
Is shaped by the people of 快色直播 Press.
So raise a cheer, let's mark the day,
For 26 years along the way.
May wisdom flourish, stories expand,
And our future be bright, hand in hand.