Dear All,
Notice of a conference on Olson, courtesy of David Herd and the
University of Kent.
Best,
Sam
Charles Olson 2010
A Centenary Conference
Centre for Modern Poetry, University of Kent
13th – 14th November, 2010
2010 marks the centenary of the birth of the American poet Charles
Olson. As poet, critic and theorist, Olson extended the possibilities
of modern writing. From Call Me Ishmael to The Maximus Poems he probed
the relation between language, space and community, providing radical
resources for the re-imagining of place and politics. Aiming, in
Robert Creeley’s terms, to hear all that Olson still provokes at the
beginning of the Twenty-First Century, this conference seeks to
re-assess the scope of his legacy. It will provide an opportunity to
consider Olson’s value through and across a range of disciplines, with
particular attention to be given to his influence on British and
European writing. Topics to be addressed could include (but won’t be
limited to):
- Olson in Europe
- Olson’s Britain
- Olson and foreign policy
- The Olsonian University
- Olson’s Melville
- Olson and women poets
- Poetry and the polis
- Olson and dance
- Olson and the visual arts
- Olson as theorist
- Spacing, prosody, form
- Olson and geology
- vatic Olson
Proposals for papers (title with 300 word abstract) should be sent to
David Herd at [log in to unmask] by 19th March, 2010.
Conference Organizing Committee: Nancy Gaffield, Michael Grant, David
Herd, Ben Hickman, Jan Montefiore, Simon Smith, Juha Virtanen.
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