SATURDAY 10th September
9.30-10 Registration
10 – 11 nick-e melville – Keynote Speech – ‘The Imperative Commands’
11 – 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 – 13 Session 1
Panel 1A: Nation / Language. Room 1
Chaired by Maja Milatovic
Dorothy Butchard: ‘Chiss/ellin dark. / ness // writin in light’: Kamau Brathwaite’s ‘Sycorax video-style’: enabling or undermining his poetic renditions of ‘nation / language’?
Angshuman Kar: Interface of Politics and Form in Australian Aboriginal Poetry in English
Michael Zand: Camera Fragmenta
Panel 1B: Surrealism and Politics Room 2
Chaired by Samantha Walton
Yiyi López Gándara: Political Experimentation in the Surrealist Laboratory. Roland Penrose: from Pacifism to Camouflage
Iva Jevtic: Angels of History and Justice: Kenneth Patchen’s Radical Hope
James Leveque: Benjamin Péret and Robert Brasillach on the 6th of February: Surrealist and Fascist Excesses
13 – 14 Lunch
14 – 16 Session 2
Roundtable: Legacies of Modernism Room 1
Chaired by Dr. Alex Thomson
John Wilkinson: Faults and Somersaults
Luke Roberts: Reading and Listening to John Wieners' 'In Public'
Robert Sheppard: Forms and Forming: Questions of Form in relation to politics
Justin Katko: Against ‘psychomortification’: Edward Dorn’s 'The Cycle'
16 -16.30 Tea/Coffee
16.30 – 17.30 Prof. Esther Leslie
Keynote speech – ‘Indolent qui ne se mène: the slipperyness of the word in revolution' Room 1
EVENING EVENT – 19.00 Poetry Reading at the Scottish Poetry Library EH8 8DT
Sean Bonney / Emily Critchley / Jim Ferguson / Ben
Watson / John Wilkinson
SUNDAY 11th September
9.45 – 11.15 Session 3
Panel 3A: Production - 1960s and 1970s British poetry Room 1
Chaired by Greg Thomas
Stewart Smith: 'Beauty. Tradition. Experiment': the re-mapping of Scottish culture in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay
Lila Matsumoto: Migrant: Little magazines as a form of study
Steve Willey: ‘Jade Sound Poems’, Bob Cobbing and the poetic institution
Panel 3B: Poetry as Action Room 2
Stewart Smith: 'Beauty. Tradition. Experiment': the re-mapping of Scottish culture in the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Alec Finlay
Lila Matsumoto: Migrant: Little magazines as a form of study
Steve Willey: ‘Jade Sound Poems’, Bob Cobbing and the poetic institution
Panel 3B: Poetry as Action Room 2
Chaired by Sarah Humayun
Judith Villaneuva: Poetry as Insistence: Eduardo Milán’s Politics of Errancy
Rosy Carrick: The Language of Revolution – Politics and Innovation in the Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Judith Villaneuva: Poetry as Insistence: Eduardo Milán’s Politics of Errancy
Rosy Carrick: The Language of Revolution – Politics and Innovation in the Poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Daniel Benjamin: George Oppen and Walter Benjamin: the spectrality of political poetry
11.15 – 11.45 Tea/Coffee
11.45 – 13.15 Session 4
Panel 4A: Performing Poetry Room 1
Chaired by Joseph Walton
Ryan Ormonde: she values deconstruction: Reading two objects/texts by Becky Cremin
Juha Virtanen: Be kind to this place, which is your present/habitation: Poetry, Politics and Form(s) at the Royal Albert Hall, June 11th, 1965
Gerry Smith: Reductive Forms
Panel 4B: Poetry and Politics of the 1930s Room 2
Ryan Ormonde: she values deconstruction: Reading two objects/texts by Becky Cremin
Juha Virtanen: Be kind to this place, which is your present/habitation: Poetry, Politics and Form(s) at the Royal Albert Hall, June 11th, 1965
Gerry Smith: Reductive Forms
Panel 4B: Poetry and Politics of the 1930s Room 2
Chaired by Michael Yates
Ned Hercock: 'The Loyal Opposition to the Bourgeoisie? Oppen & Objectivism’s Politics
Andrew Campbell:The Airman and the Kestrel. The Orators and The Magnetic Mountain : The Form and Function of 1930s political poetry
J. Engel Szwaja-Franken: At the Threshold of the Avant-Garde: The Politics of Jorge Cuesta’s Critique of the State
Ned Hercock: 'The Loyal Opposition to the Bourgeoisie? Oppen & Objectivism’s Politics
Andrew Campbell:The Airman and the Kestrel. The Orators and The Magnetic Mountain : The Form and Function of 1930s political poetry
J. Engel Szwaja-Franken: At the Threshold of the Avant-Garde: The Politics of Jorge Cuesta’s Critique of the State
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.45 Session 5
Panel 5A: Hybrid Forms and Themes Room 1
Chaired by Sandra Alland
Eva Ulrike Pirker: Hybrid forms – a poetic project from Blake to the present
Ishaq Tijani: Gender and Poetry in Muslim Spain: Mapping the Sexual/Textual Politics of al-Andalus through Womens Poetry
Jamie Sackett: Redefining a Genre; Irish Protestant Experiments in Pastoral
Panel 5B: Critiques of the West Room 2
Eva Ulrike Pirker: Hybrid forms – a poetic project from Blake to the present
Ishaq Tijani: Gender and Poetry in Muslim Spain: Mapping the Sexual/Textual Politics of al-Andalus through Womens Poetry
Jamie Sackett: Redefining a Genre; Irish Protestant Experiments in Pastoral
Panel 5B: Critiques of the West Room 2
Chaired by Dr. Aaron Kelly
Iain Twiddy: Terrorism and Censorship in Paul Muldoon's Horse Latitudes
Pip Smith: Between forms: how translation has informed the experimental prose poem-essays of Eliot Weinberger
15.45 – 16.45 Sean Bonney
Iain Twiddy: Terrorism and Censorship in Paul Muldoon's Horse Latitudes
Pip Smith: Between forms: how translation has informed the experimental prose poem-essays of Eliot Weinberger
15.45 – 16.45 Sean Bonney
Keynote Speech: ‘Content Exceeds Phrase: Towards a Radical Poetics’
Room 1
16.45 – 17.00 Closing remarks
EVENING EVENT:
16.45 – 17.00 Closing remarks
EVENING EVENT:
19.00 Poetry reading at The Rowantree, Canongate, EH1 1NS
Ben Knight + Euan Currie, Justin Katko, Juha Virtanen, James Leveque, Jamie Sackett, nick-e melville, ZORRAS Multimedia Troupe, Pete McConville, Angshuman Kar, Robert Sheppard, Pip Smith, Rosy Carrick, Steve Willey, and Shellsuit Massacre