Jerome, tell me exactly how to do that and I'll do it.

John, all the details are in the link Maryann supplied in her first post but I'll paste the registration and on-line voting info from the university website below:

The registration period will open on Monday, 13 April 2015 and close at noon on Monday, 8 June 2015 (BST). If you are unable to register on-line, or have any queries about the registration process, please send an email to Alex Lonie (alex.lonie@electoralreform.co.uk) or telephone +44 020 8365 8909.
Voting

Registered voters will have the option of voting, either on-line, or in person at the University Offices, from Friday 22 May until noon, on Wednesday 17 June 2015 (BST). Voters who have registered to vote on-line will be sent instructions on how to vote once their eligibility to vote has been verified.

I'll be rooting from the sidelines. It would be great to have a formalist in the position, and Alicia has shown that she can not only write and translate poetry well, but also discuss it intelligently in essays. There aren't many poets whose work I find riveting. She is one of them.

Susan

Thank you Jerome. She's got one vote then. Which is more than Alan Bold (Scottish poet, fat, genial) got when he stood.

Most of the poets who have been Oxford Professor of Poetry have been formalists. Geoffrey Hill was an abberation. Since the war thre have been:

Cecil Day Lewis
W.H. Auden
Robert Graves
Edmund Blunden
Roy Fuller
Seamus Heaney
James Fenton.

There hasn't been a woman yet, except the ill-fated Ruth Padel who had to resign in ignominy.

That's some amazing company, right there. Three of my favorites. I think Alicia will fit comfortably alongside them all.

I actually went to Graves' Lectures.

Liking Alicia on Facebook is only infinitesimally helpful to her. Tweeting and retweeting can get the word out to tens of thousands of Oxford graduates who have never bothered to vote before. You all know someone literary who squanders his or her life on Twitter.

If you want to help her, the time is now and tweets are how.

@amjuster

It's an election--get out the vote!!!

It wouldn't be tens of thousands. They have to buy themselves an MA. Most people don't bother. I however came up with my fiver.

From memory it cost me a tenner. There's inflation for you.

It is very good that it can at last be done on-line. I've never been able to vote before.

This is the most exciting election campaign that I know about. Does anyone know of any others going on at the moment?

(I see from this page that she's up against one Nobel Laureate for the moment.)