Alice Oswald: Gigantic Cinema

After all, what is not weather?

Alice Oswald—Oxford University Professor of Poetry and author of Memorial and Falling Awake, among other books of poems—reads from and discusses Gigantic Cinema: A Weather Anthology, which she co-edited with Paul Keegan and which features contributions ranging from Homer’s winds and Ovid’s flood to Frank O’Hara’s sun and Elizabeth Bishop’s “Song for a Rainy Season.”

“Our ruling idea was to have no ideas: to dispense with writing ‘about’ weather, writing that knows what it’s talking about,” Oswald and Keegan wrote in their preface to the anthology. “Instead, we have preferred writing that is ‘like’ weather, that has the sovereignty of sheer event. As if the weather were to write itself. To concentrate on something as erratic as the weather has an immediate and disturbing effect on the imagination.”

Purchase $15 tickets to this event by signing up for XYZ when you check out.

92Y needs your help. We are continuing to face financial losses due to Covid-19. Your ticket purchase helps sustain our beloved institution and supports the creation of new programs, both online and in person, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to access our programming, regardless of age, background or geographic location. Please consider donating today at 92Y.org/HelpNow. Thank you.