Thanks to Ric Caddel for the conference round-up. Here are fuller details
of the Eric Mottram Conference.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON / CENTRE FOR ENGLISH STUDIES
Poetics and Cultural Studies
The Eric Mottram Conference 1997
A One-Day Conference : Friday 19 September 1997
Organisers: Professor William Rowe (King”s College London),
Dr Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London),
Peterjon and Yasmin Skelt (publishers: North and South, Solaris)
Eric Mottram (1924-1995) is a key figure of post-war literature and
teaching. After the work of Charles Olson and Robert Duncan, Eric Mottram
produced one of the most extensive and coherent bodies of work on late 20th
century poetics. He published over 160 articles and 20 critical works
including a collection of essays on American culture, Blood on the Nash
Ambassador and the first book-length study of William Burroughs' work, The
Algebra of Need. He had two dozen collections of poetry published from the
late 1960s onwards including Elegies, A Book of Herne and Selected Poems.
Mottram was the first to teach Beat writing in Europe in the 1950s, the
first teacher of American Studies in the University of London, and
co-founder of the Institute of United States Studies in the University of
London in 1963. He edited POETRY REVIEW in 1972 77, ran the King's Poetry
series in 1976-80 and co-edited The New British Poetry (1988).
The conference will explore and extend the field in which Eric Mottram was
working: in particular take up the recurrent concerns and urgencies which
run through the wide range of materials he handled. This is the beginning
of a series of conferences, allowing for preparation and concentration on
particular areas of concern.
PROGRAMME
---Jerome Rothenberg / University of California at San Diego "The Poetics
and Ethnopoetics of the Book"
---Pierre Joris / State University of New York at Albany "Eric Mottram”s Use
of Collage"
---Keith Tuma / University of Miami at Ohio "Contemporary British and
American Poetry"
---Jeff Nuttall / British poet, painter, ceramicist, actor "The Degradation
of Awareness"
---Lisa Raphals / Bard College, New York "Strategem and Destiny: A Question
of Manoeuvring Room"
---Dale Carter / University of Åarhus, Denmark "The Tartarus of Maids: An
American Studies Folding Room"
---Allen Fisher / Herefordshire College of Art & Design, England "The Kent
Journal"
---Update on the Eric Mottram Archive at King”s College London
CO-SPONSORS
Centre for US Studies, King”s College London; Centre for Latin American
Cultural Studies, King”s College London; Sub Voicive Poetry; Students of
Eric Mottram at the University of Westminster
VENUE / FEE
Centre for English Studies, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Tel. 0171 636 8000 x3052/3054
Standard fee (to be confirmed): £12; Students / Unemployed / Members of the
Centre: £5
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