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Hi Zoë, have posted the call on Nomadics & sent it to the Buffalo list. Abwarten und Tee trinken, as the Germans say. Very (over) busy here in New York, preparing the Euro-tour, & a bunch of readings for next week & beyond here in the US. Peter Cockelbergh is also here for the week & we are working on 2 books on Robert kelly — he would have loved to come & give a paper, but this trip here broke his piggy bank, so unless he can find travel money, he won't be able to come to Bangor. I hope that my new book of poems will be "back from the printers" (which is how publishers describe their late work) so that I can bring copies to the UK. Much looking forward to the days in Wales! abrazos, Pierre On Apr 4, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Zoë Skoulding <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear all, > > Please see info attached and below on a forthcoming event at Bangor, which will take the work of Pierre Joris and Allen Fisher as a starting point for related explorations. Proposals for short talks are still welcome, but anyone is welcome to attend without presenting. For more information, please don't reply to this email but to [log in to unmask] and/or Peter Barry at [log in to unmask] > > Best wishes, > > Zoë > > Nomadic and Processual Poetics: A Symposium with Pierre Joris and Allen Fisher, 17th-18th May 2013. > Bangor University > > FINAL DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: APRIL 15th > > This one-day symposium is organised by Contempo, the Centre for Contemporary Poetry which is run jointly by Aberystwyth and Bangor Universities. > > It will consider the scope and applicability of the ideas of Pierre Joris and Allen Fisher and related poetics, including issues of translation and place-specific writing, in the light of the archipelagic World-and-UK context of the many ‘devolved voices’ of contemporary poetry. > > > > A nomadic poetics is … always changing, morphing, moving through languages, cultures, terrains, times without stopping. Refuelling halts are called poases, they last a night or a day, the time of a poem, & then move on. A nomadic poetics needs mindfulness in & of the drift (dérive) – there is no at-homeness here, but only an ever more displaced drifting. For the language to be accurate to the condition of nomadicity, it too has to be drifting, to be always ‘on the way’, as Celan puts it. > > > Pierre Joris, Notes Towards a Nomadic Poetics. > > > > The new works . . . include objects and processes, process-showings and methodologies in a world of multiple possibilities that is . . . complementing the political arena, without being its voice. . . . It is a requirement of this art that . . . the poetry is always ‘yet to be found’ in the process of its making, and that making continues to take place through the physiology of the reader. > > > Allen Fisher, The Topological Shovel, Four Essays. > > > > Confirmed contributors include Pierre Joris, Allen Fisher, Jean Portante, Mandy Bloomfield, Ian Davidson, Steven Hitchins, Peter Barry and Zoë Skoulding. > > > > Suggestions for further fifteen-minute talks/papers (followed by discussion) are invited on any aspect of the work and/or cultural contexts of Pierre Joris and/or Allen Fisher. Please send a 200-word outline of your proposed topic by April 15th 2013. Those who wish to contribute to discussion without presenting a paper are also welcome, but please confirm attendance by the same date if you plan to come. Fee: £30 waged or £20 student/unwaged. > > > > A reading featuring Allen Fisher, Pierre Joris, Nicole Peyrafitte and Jean Portante will take place before the symposium at 6.30pm on the Friday evening, May 17th. > All events will be held in Bangor University. > > > > Please send proposals to both e-mail addresses below: > Dr Zoë Skoulding ([log in to unmask]) and Professor Peter Barry ([log in to unmask]) > > For further information about Contempo go to: http://www.aber.ac.uk/contempo/ > <Nomadic and Processual Poetics Final Deadline April 15th.docx> _____________________________________________________ Out now! Order today: Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Pierre Joris (Editor), Habib Tengour (Editor), http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520273856 _____________________________________________________ Pierre Joris cell: 518 225 7123 email: [log in to unmask] http://pierrejoris.com Nomadics blog: http://pierrejoris.com/blog/ ______________________________________________________ I don’t know if we can get rid of our “soul waste” more easily than of our “atomic waste” — Paul Celan ______________________________________________________