on anthologies, anthologists and anthologising:
Edge Hill, Ormskirk (north of Liverpool); Friday July 16 1999.
This conference, which I have had a hand in, might of interest to
listmembers.
Here is the provisional programme in summary form. Send for fuller
details.
Thursday Night July 15: A launch for OTHER: British and Irish Poetry
Since 1970:
a reading by Ric Caddel, Maggie O'Sullivan, Ken Edwards, and minimally:
me.
Friday 16 July
10.00 Anthologies and the canon
Robert Martin: The Anthology and its Canons
Linda Lang-Peralta: Anthologies and World Literature
Alan Golding on Poetry Anthologies and the Canon. Rothenberg and
Joris' Millennium
12.00 Session A: Anthologising Periodicals and Newspapers
Kay Boardman and Margaret Beetham: Victorian women's periodicals
Clare Horrocks: Anthologising Suffrage Reports
12.00 Session B: Literary Politics and Anthologies of 20C Poetry
Michael Whitworth: Michael Roberts' Faber book (1935)
Robert Sheppard: an overview of anthologies (allmentioned during the
day)
2.00 Session A: C20 Popular Fiction
Nickianne Moody: Cyberpunk and Chermical Generation
Peter Wright: SciFi anthologies
2.00 Session B: Strategies of Anthologising
Ken Edwards: Canon fodder: anthologising to infiltrate
Ric Caddel: anthologies that present, not repreasent
2.00 Session C;
Heahter Larmour: 18C anthologising
Janet Lewison: 20C short stories
3.30. Session A: Women and Writing
Margaret Forsyth: working class women poets of the C19 .
Gail Chester: anthology as a medium for feminist debate
3.30 Session B: Anthologising contemporary poetry
Wolfgang Gortschacher: Little mags and anthologies of poetry
Lawrence Upton: Word Score Utterance Choreography.
4.40-6.00 Round table discussion: Anthologies and Romanticism
Duncan Wu and Harriet Jump.
Conference fee: 18 pounds waged
14 pounds unwaged.
Accommodation available Thursday and Friday night.
Sorry about my shorthand. But if you want fuller details e mail and I'll
send booking form etc.
(please feel free to crosspost)
Robert Sheppard
Emma Liggins
Margaret Forsyth
Edge Hill
Ormskirk
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