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Binoculars BusVoicive Colloquium 1997

CONVENOR:
Lawrence Upton

COLLOQUIUM COMMITTTEE: 
Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Robert Hampson, Lawrence Upton

Preparatory Bulletin: April 1997

DATE:
The Sub Voicive Colloquium 1997 will take place during the autumn of 1997 at a date to be announced. It will be a Saturday event with a poetry reading on the Friday night before.

PLACE:
Centre for English Studies, Senate House, University of London.

APPROACH:
There is too much to cover in one colloquium, but we can cover a lot; it is as important to be sure we listen to each other as it is to try to get through too crowded an agenda. It is important that all at the conference work to provide real opportunities!
  to really TALK. (The convenor is committed holding another colloquium in 1998 and perhaps annually thereafter if it seems useful to do so.) The day will be structured and sessions will be chaired. However, we are not necessarily looking for formal paper!
 s to be formally delivered. Rather we are looking for activities which will initiate discussion in the colloquium and proposals for possible further action; such activities may well include the presentation of formal papers

AIMS:
to address issues of importance which have emerged from discussions and activities of working poets in the British Isles:

PROPOSED AREAS OF DISCUSSION: 
What constitutes or why bother to care about
* progress
* progressive
* innovative
* inventive
Why trouble over paradigms at all
The term "linguistically innovative", first used by Gilbert Adair, is now used very widely and quite loosely. Does it have any meaning now? Is it a useful term to be using?
Does the term "experimental" have any role?
Visual poetry / concrete poetry: Is it being unfairly marginalised these days? has it had its day or is its day still to come? or is all the energy going into 'performance writing' these days?
The relationship of poetry to other areas, in particular "performance", to what extent is poetry now separable as a discrete activity
To what extent do we mean different things when we speak of the following and how useful are these terms in defining differences: 
* Poetry
* text
* writing
How does electronic text relate / fit in?

CONFERENCE MATERIALS:
Finances permitting, there will be background materials of some kind; understanding of what is needed will grow as ideas and proposals become full plans. It is intended that, where appropriate, papers / prepared documents will be published in their colloq!
 uium or post colloquium form after the colloquium. It is intended to audio record the proceedings; but the recordings will not be released without relevant permission being granted.

CONTRIBUTIONS:
There is no agenda with regard to who leads discussions EXCEPT that it is desirable for the final list to be SURPRISING in a constructive way and it shouldn't be an all-male thing or anything like.)

Further proposals in the areas outlined above are requested. Please state topics / areas in as much detail as possible together with how you want to do it, how long you want to do it for. NB We may have to limit the amount of time you take.

DEADLINE  for receipt of proposals:
to be announced - keep sending them in.

PROPOSED DEADLINE  for materials to be included in background materials:
to be announced

Materials to be reproduced are requested in hard copy and computer file.

FINANCES:
At this moment there is no money and everything is being done on various people's goodwill. We welcome donations in money and kind! Other forms of finance will be sought but you must be prepared to be working for nothing and travelling for nothing

There will be a fee to attend the colloquium. This will be kept as low as possible. A combined (cheaper) ticket to the colloquium and poetry performance will be available

Please use email wherever possible because it is not only fast but cheap. Please send s.a.e. / i.r.c. when using the mail.

PROMOTING THE COLLOQUIUM:
Please tell people and / or pass us the addresses of people who might be interested.

CONTACTING US us:
Mail: 32 Downside Road, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5HP
Telephone 0181 251 2204
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