Credit: Julian Anderson
The winner of the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2023 is A.E. Stallings for This Afterlife: Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet 2022).
A prize of £10,000 was awarded to the winner on Monday 19 June at a well-attended ceremony in the Great Hall of King’s College London in the presence of our Patron, HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
Prof. Peter Frankopan, the chair of judges, said:
‘This was a formidable year with a stunning set of entries. The range of scholarship, creativity and interests in all things Greek – from ideas of the body to those about maths, from aesthetics to myths. We were thrilled to shortlist two books of poetry, and genuinely excited to announce A.E. Stallings and This Afterlife: Selected Poems as the winner of the Runciman Award 2023. This is a sparkling, joyful and glorious collection. We are so pleased, too, that this is the first time the award has been won by a poet – Homer and his many peers will be smiling at our choice.’
At the award ceremony, Professor Mary Beard, University of Cambridge, gave an impassioned keynote address on ‘How do we best argue for Classics?’.
Credit: Julian Anderson
The full press release can be found here.
The Anglo-Hellenic League is sponsored by the A C Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A G Leventis Foundation.
