A joint keynote address will be delivered by Professor Sandeep Parmar (University of Liverpool) and Dr Mary Jean Chan (Oxford Brookes University).
The symposium will conclude with a poetry reading and discussion with Mary Jean Chan, author of the Costa Poetry Award-winning Flèche.
The event is run by Drs Catherine Gander and Karl O'Hanlon. Attendance is free, but registration must be emailed to poetryascrit@gmail.com.
Programme:
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Karl O’Hanlon and Catherine Gander
9.30-11.00—Panel One: The Social Function of Poetry
Chair: TBC
Maria Manning
‘Viral Critics: Reading Instapoetry with Criticism’
S.J. de Mattio
‘Elegies of the Quotidian: The Integral Role of the “Poet-Critic” in the Emergence of
AIDS Poetry’
Ellen Orchard
‘Poetry as Apology: Global Reckoning in Layli Long Soldier and Kimberly
Campanello’s Recent Collections’
11.15-12:30—Keynote talk: Sandeep Parmar and Mary Jean Chan
‘Poetry reviewing and race: a conversation’
12:30-13:30—Lunch
13:30-15:00—Panel Two: Irish Poetic and Critical Environments
Chair: Karl O’Hanlon
Oana Marian
‘Critical Poetics: a Case for Contemporary Irish Female Poets as Undervalued
Liberation Resource’
Eszter György
‘Poetry or Propaganda? Art as criticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading
Gaol’
Charlotte Buckley
‘Curing the Outdoors: An Ecofeminist Reading of Contemporary Irish Women’s
Poetry’
15.15-16:45—Panel Three: Poetry, Criticism, Difficulty
Chair: Catherine Gander
Ellen Dillon
‘Why write (down) what can’t be taught?: Fanny Howe and the Unteachable Poem’
Yasna Bozhkova
‘“I, too, dislike it”: The Hatred of Poetry from Marianne Moore to Ben Lerner’
Bowen Wang
‘“Reading, from out of the purple tabulae”: Wallace Stevens’ Metapoetics and Interart
Philosophy’
16:45-17:00 - Concluding remarks, break
17.00-18:00—Mary Jean Chan: Poetry Reading & Discussion with Karl O’Hanlon and Catherine Gander