A batch of printed conference outlines are to hand, which all or any of the organisers are welcome to copy to this list but I'll be damned if I'll re-key, so the following information is selective: _________________________________ POETICS AND CULTURAL STUDIES : THE ERIC MOTTRAM CONFERENCE 1997 A one-day conference Friday 19th Sept, Centre for English Studies, Senate House, Mallet St, London tel 0171 6368000 x3052/3054 Organisers Will Rowe (Kings) Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway) Peterjon & Yasmin Skelt (North & South) Programme includes Jerome Rothenberg, Pierre Joris, Keith Tuma, Jeff Nuttall, Lisa Raphals, Dale Carter & Allen Fisher _________________________________________ POSTMODERN POETRY A Day Conference 31st March 1998 Exmouth Campus, University of Plymouth Organisers Tony Lopez & Philip Terry [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Participants include Andrew Crozier, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Lyn Hejinian and John Kinsella; we invite papers on any aspect of contemporary poetry... _________________________________________ SOMETHING WE HAVE THAT THEY DON'T : POSTWAR ANGLO AMERICAN POETIC RELATIONS A Two-day conference Friday 10th & Saturday 11th July 1998 Centre For English Studies University of London Organisers Stephen Clark ([log in to unmask]) & Mark Ford Speakers include Helen Vendler and Marjorie Perloff; "series of concurrent readings including Lyn Hejinian, Jorie Graham and John Ashbery". Phew! Sure looks like the Research Assessment Exercise is starting to bite... ___________________________________________________________ Richard Caddel Durham University Library, Stockton Rd., Durham DH1 3LY, UK E-mail: R.I.Caddel @ durham.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)191 374 3044 Fax: +44 (0)191 374 7481 WWW: http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dul0ric "Words! Pens are too light. Take a chisel to write." - Basil Bunting ___________________________________________________________ %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%