Programme



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
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

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
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

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
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
Keynote Speech: ‘Content Exceeds Phrase: Towards a Radical Poetics’ 
Room 1


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