The Department of English and American Studies,
Masaryk University, Brno
and
The Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies,
Palack University, Olomouc
with the support of the British Council in the Czech Republic
will be holding a seminar entitled
"Different British Voices - Poetry, Locality, Plurality"
on September 12-14, 1997
in Brno, the Czech Republic
The seminar will examine aspects of locality and difference in the writing
and performance of poetry in British contexts and beyond.
Leading the seminar will be four widely differing British poets: Richard
Caddel, Maggie O'Sullivan, Lee Harwood and Tony Baker. Like many other
poets currently active in Britain, each of them has established a
reputation for using performence and voice to stress the importance of
locality and to question notions of "centrality" in British poetry and
culture.
The poets will perform their own work and lead a series of seminar
discussions. They will be joined at the seminar by the renowned Czech poet
Miroslav Holub as well as by other Czech poets and translators and, we
hope, by poets and translators from other countries and regions.
The seminar will be of interest and relevance to poets, teachers and
translators.
The cost of the Seminar, including two nights accomodation and meals, will
be in the region of 80 pounds. For further information, or to express
interest, please contact:
Don Sparling
Department of english and American Studies
Masaryk University
Arna Novaka 1
660 88 Brno
Czech Republic
Tel: (421-5) 41121 153 Fax: (421-5) 41121 406
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