Oxford poetry race heads into the final stretch

The candidates for the Oxford poetry post--unfilled since last year's Derek Walcott kerfuffle--make their cases to the elders and the public.  The  Guardian has the story (and probably will continue to have it until June 18 when the voting closes):

Promises to use poetry as a "weapon, bloodsoaked and glinting" and plans for a poetry slam contest suggest the competition for the role of Oxford poetry professor is heating up. The 11 candidates have each laid out their reasons for standing – one of them entirely in verse.

"I thought it might be oh-so hip / to win me a professorship, / and so I thought I'd write this note / to woo, to wow, to win your vote," writes Robert P Lacey, a medic who says if he were to be voted in by Oxford graduates, he'd write a poem a week and post it online, and also "form another, smallish prize / for poetry that please my eyes" . . .