The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC), Birkbeck presents:
The Birkbeck Contemporary Poetry Conference – ‘On the Language’, 7-8 May
2004
>>>>> Friday May 7th 2004
13:45 - Introduction by William Rowe.
14:00 to 15:30 - Language Now session
30 minute papers from:
♦ Bruce Andrews – [‘Reading & Poetics’]
♦ Redell Olsen – [‘Visual Performance, Process and
Poetics’]
♦ Jed Rasula – [‘Licence for Nonsense: Mystification and Opportunism
in the wake
of Language Poetry’]
♦ Robert Sheppard – [‘The Poetics of Maggie
O’Sullivan’]
30 minute break
16:00 to 17:30 - The ‘Edges of Language’ session
30 minute papers from:
♦ John Cayley – [‘Undeferred: Poetics, Inscription & Time’]
♦ Rob Holloway
♦ Brian Kim Stefans – [‘Circulars as Anti-Poem’]
90 minute break
19:00 to 21:30 - Readings [1]
20 minute readings from:
♦ Caroline Bergvall
♦ Ulli Freer – [‘BURNER ON THE BUFF’]
♦ Bill Griffiths – [‘The New North East’]
♦ Rod Mengham – [‘Terra Infirma’]
♦ Jed Rasula – [‘Tabula Rasula’]
♦ Brian Kim Stefans – [‘Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics’]
>>>>> Saturday May 8th 2004
13:30 to 15:30 - Language & Design in Poetry Session
30 minute papers from:
♦ Caroline Bergvall
♦ Bill Griffiths – ['Variations of Language']
♦ Pierre Joris – [‘Towards a Nomad Poetics: Poetry and Translation in
a Global Age’]
♦ Peter Middleton
30 minute break
16:00 to 17:45 - Movement – Image – Text Session
30 minute sessions from:
♦ Brian Catling – [‘Muffled Blurs’]
♦ cris cheek
♦ Iain Sinclair [‘The City of Disappearances’]
♦ Lawrence Upton
90 minute break
19:00 to 21:30 – Readings [2]
20 minute readings from:
♦ Gilbert Adair [‘Here as a Genre’]
♦ Bruce Andrews – [‘Recent Performativity’]
♦ Brian Catling – [‘In Advance of Puppeted Words’]
♦ Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte – [“S U M E R I C A V E –’]
♦ Redell Olsen – [‘Recent Work’]
♦ Aaron Williamson [‘Of Lives and Saints’]
(the above schedule does not reflect the running order within the sessions)
Venue : Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, London WC1E 7HX, room b36
Nearest Tubes: Russell Square, Euston, Euston Square, Warren Street
Admission: 2 days £20/£10 concessions, 1 day £12/£8
Readings only £6/£3 per day
Tickets will be available on the day.
Contact: Stephen on 020 72444670 or at [log in to unmask]
Piers on 07780 767099 or at [log in to unmask]
( Open to academics, students and the public )
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