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From: Niall Munro [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 April 2013 00:30
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Subject: Shifting Territories: modern and contemporary poetics of place conference, 22-23 May
Registration is now open for 'Shifting Territories', a conference at the Institute of English Studies, London, which will consider the recent wave of new nature writing and poetry that goes beyond traditional representations of landscape to venture into borderlands, edgelands and urban environments. The conference aims to determine if the current interest in poetry of place is a direct response to environmental crises or whether it is merely a refashioning of what poetry has always taken as its subject. It will examine the ways in which poets use language to negotiate the relentlessly shifting concepts of identity and place and how particular locations, or states of flux, have shaped their aesthetic.
The conference, co-organized by Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and the University of Reading, in association with the Institute of English Studies, the Royal Society of Literature and British Academy Literature Week, features papers by postgraduates and Early Career Researchers, and keynotes by David Morley, Jo Shapcott, and Eóin Flannery. It will also include a reading by Alice Oswald, a lecture by Hugh Haughton, and a workshop by Steven Matthews. All are welcome.
The full programme and registration details can be found on the IES website here: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ies-conferences/Shifting-Territories-2013
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