Professor of Poetry, Oxford

       The great Geoffrey Hill has been Professor of Poetry at Oxford since 2010, and with his five-year-term ending soon, the hunt is on for his successor, with voting to be held from 22 May to 17 June.
       In The Guardian Alison Flood reports that Wole Soyinka leads candidates for Oxford professor of poetry, the author receiving more than 90 nominations (with fifty the minimum needed to be considered). Ian Gregson (54 nominations) and Seán Haldane (51) are the others in the running.