A.E. Stallings and Ernest Hilbert read their poems in the Old Dining Hall at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University, on Friday, November 21st, 2025. You can click below to hear the entire program, which is listed below. Recording by Charlie Phillips. With many thanks to St Edmund Hall and to Erica McAlphine for organizing and hosting.

Program

Set One, Ernest Hilbert

Introductory remarks

“Nostos”

“Unruled”

“We Make Mountains So We May Move Them”

“Visitations”

“Drink Me”

Set Two, A.E. Stallings

Opening remarks

“Homecoming”

“The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles”

“Two Violins”

“Accident Waiting to Happen”

“Hide and Seek”

“Sea Girls”

“Olives”

Set Three, Ernest Hilbert

“Rowing in the Dawn”

“Remains”

“Stronghold”

“Deep Shade”

“Sole Unquiet Things”

Set Four, A.E. Stallings

“Echo”

“Ghost Nets”

“Ghazal of the Fiftieth Danaid”

“Verses Starting with a Phrase out of Plato’s Republic”

Question and Answer Session with Stallings and Hilbert