This event is brought to you by Oxford Dante Society

Viewing of Inferno illustrations 4-5 pm; Lady Margaret Hall, Jerwood Room;

Launch of After Dante: Poets in Purgatory 5-7 pm. Lady Margaret Hall, Simkins Lee Theatre, 5-6.15 pm;

Reception - Lady Margaret Hall, Talbot Hall, 6.15-7 pm.

Free entry to both events; all welcome. Capacity of Jerwood Room is limited to 40, maximum capacity in Simkins Lee Theatre is 130 and the maximum capacity of Talbot Hall is 100.  Face-coverings are requested when moving around communal areas.

This new complete translation of Dante's Purgatorio is by sixteen contemporary poets who enter into dialogue with the original by rendering it into a variety of Anglophone voices: American, Australian, British, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish, Singaporean. The launch will include readings by some of the poets and will be followed by a reception.

The event will be preceded by an opportunity to view the originals of the 45 illustrations for the Inferno by John Dickson Batten (late 1890s), now edited with a commentary by Prof. Peter Hainsworth (Panarc, 2021)

Prof. Peter Hainsworth, Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. Translator of Giovanni Boccaccio: Tales from The Decameron (Penguin Classics); co-author of Dante: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).

Prof. Nick Havely, Emeritus Professor of English & Related Literature, University of York. Author of Dante's British Public: Readers & Texts, from the Fourteenth Century to the Present (Oxford University Press).