The American poet and Pulitzer prizewinner CK Williams is to deliver the Poetry Society Annual Lecture: On Being Old on 26 May, from 7pm – 10 pm.  His lecture at Beveridge Hall, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, WC1 7HU will be interspersed with new poems exploring his changing relationship with the great poets of history, from Wyatt, Wordsworth and Pushkin to Bishop, Auden and Lowell.

For the first time, the event will also be presented in two other UK cities, in partnership with Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (25 May) and the University of Liverpool's Kenneth Allott Lecture (13 October) when Williams returns with an expanded meditation on his theme. To buy tickets for the London lecture click here . For more information about the Newcastle lecture  visit  www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla For the Poetry Society Annual Lecture at the University of Liverpool contact jgaywood@liverpool.ac.uk