TRADITION AND RESISTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY
FRIDAY, 20 NOVEMBER 1998
One-day conference at the Centre for English Studies, Senate House,
University of London, Russell Square.
Telephone enquiries to: 0171-862-8675 / 8676 to book places.
Organisers: Robert Hampson, Royal Holloway, University of London
Alison Mark, Brunel University
9.30: REGISTRATION
10.00: Opening Session:
DR TIM WOODS (University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
'Memory and ethics in contemporary poetry'
LUCY SHEERMAN (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Lyn Hejinian
DR HARRIET TARLO (Bretton Hall)
'"A she even smaller than a me": gender dramas of the
contemporary avant-garde'
11.45: COFFEE
12.15 First Plenary Session:
DR STEVE EVANS (Brown University)
'Death and Redifinition in the Avant-Garde'
1.00: LUNCH
2.15: Second Plenary Session:
DR BARRETT WATTEN (Wayne State University)
'The Secret History of the Equal Sign: L=A-=N=G=U=A=G=E
between Discourse and Text'
3.30: COFFEE
4.00: PERFORMANCE:
CRIS CHEEK and CARLA HARRYMAN
Sponsored by the English Departments of Brunel University and Royal
Holloway, University of London.
Please download, copy, post, forward .... and please come.
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> Announcing (for those who haven't yet heard)
>
> SNEAK'S NOISE:
> POEMS FOR R.F. LANGLEY
>
> A small anthology put together by friends and admirers of RFL to celebrate
> his 60th birthday and retirement (since postponed) from teaching.
> Published
> in Cambridge by Poetical Methods and Infernal Histories. The anthology
> was
> sprung on the poor man at a surprise gathering (he thought he was just
> going out for a quiet afternoon tea) in a converted schoolhouse under
> Wetton Edge on 24th October attended by nine of the contributing poets,
> entourages and supporters.
>
> The contributors are in order of appearance--
>
> J.H.Prynne, Douglas Oliver, Peter Riley, Roy Fisher, Tom Lowenstein, Tony
> Lopez, Michael Schmidt, John Welch, Nigel Wheale, Martin Thom, Rod
> Mengham,
> Grace Lake, Barry MacSweeney, Michael Haslam, Thomas A Clark, Kelvin
> Corcoran, Peter Hughes, Bob Walker, Andrew Brewerton, Helen Macdonald,Peb
> Stone and Eric Langley.
>
> So that it forms a very neat little collection of new work from some of
> the
> most worthy names in contemporary British poetry (all poems previously
> unbublished) and fully demonstrates the high regard in which R.F.Langley
> is
> held among British poets.
>
> 36pp A5. Edition of 200 of which 100 are for sale.
>
> Price: £3.00
> Including post and packing: £4.00 / Europe £4.50 / Transoceanic £5.00
>
> order from
> Peter Riley (Books)
> 27 Sturton Street,
> Cambridge CB1 2QG
> United Kingdom.
>
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