A performance by Greek Poet Phoebe Giannisi from her new collection, Goatsong, followed by a conversation with her translator, Brian Sneeden, hosted by the Professor of Poetry, A. E. Stallings; event co-organised with the Sub-Faculty of Modern Greek.

Phoebe Giannisi is the author of eight collections of poetry. A 2016 Humanities Fellow of Columbia University, Giannisi is a professor of architecture at the University of Thessaly, and co-editor of the literary journal FRMK. She has translated Ancient Greek lyric poetry as well as the poetry of Barbara Koehler, Gregor Laschen, Jesper Svenbro and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues. She lives in Volos, Greece.

Brian Sneeden is the author of Last City (Carnegie Mellon, 2018). His poetry and translations have received the Iowa Review Award in Poetry, an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship, the World Literature Today Translation Award for Poetry, the Constantinides Memorial Translation Prize, a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and other recognitions. He is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

A.E. Stallings, Oxford Professor of Poetry 2023-27, is known for using classical references to talk about modern life. She studied Classics at University of Georgia and Oxford, and has published four collections of poetry, Archaic Smile, Hapax, and Olives, Like, and a selected poems, This Afterlife. She has published three verse translations, Lucretius’s The Nature of Things, Hesiod’s Works and Days, and an illustrated The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. Her most recent book is Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon.