The Women’s Innovtive Poetry & Cross-Genre Festival is a three-day international conference focused on innovative writing and performance, organized by Dr Emily Critchley (ICAS, University of Greenwich) with support from Dr Carol Watts (Poetics Centre, Birkbeck, University of London).
Events will take place in Rooms 315 & 303, King William Building, University of Greenwich, London SE10 9LS
Admission to the festival is free (donations welcome)
Final list of readers and times subject to change:
14th July (in Room KW315)
11.00 Introduction by Emily Critchley (University of Greenwich) & Carol Watts (Birkbeck, University of London)
11.30 Leslie Scalapino tribute
12.00 Caroline Bergvall (University of Southampton, UK), Performance: FLAG UP: preparatory notes for a public writing event
12.30 Samantha Walton (University of Edinburgh, UK), Performance: psychosis memoir in the manner of annualist autobiography: A YEAR OFF THE WARD
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 Eleni Sikelianos (the University of Denver, US), Performance: THE CALIFORNIA POEM & BODY CLOCK
2.30 Luke Roberts (PhD at Cambridge, UK) Paper: on the work of Marianne Morris & its relation to visual work, in particular, Jeff Wall and photography.
3.00 Corina Copp (CUNY, US), Performance: excerpts from performance text OK (Office Killer)
3.30 – 4.00 Break
4.00 Jacob Edmond (University of Otago, New Zealand), Paper: “Let’s do a Gertrude Stein on it”: Caroline Bergvall and Iterative Poetics
4.30 Frances Presley (London, UK), Performance: STONE SETTINGS + Tilla Brading & ALPHABET FOR ALINA + artist Peterjon Skelt
5.00 Zoë Skoulding (Bangor University, Wales), Paper: Against Background: Redell Olsen and Frances Presley
5.30 Lee Ann Brown (St. John's University, NY, US), Performance: WHEN SINGING THE CHANGES (reconfigured hymns, ballads and song form poetry)
6.00 – 6.30 Break
6.30 Zoë Skoulding, Performance: OUT OF TIME (poetry/sound)
7.00 Marianne Morris (Dartington College of Arts, UK), Performance: sound pieces + poetry
7.30 Catherine Wagner (Miami University, Ohio, US), Performance: poems + songs
8.00 Drinks reception in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery
15th July (in Room KW315)
11.00 Holly Pester (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), Performance: IMITATIONS OF A RADIO-VOICE
11.30 Sophie Robinson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Performance: SHE!
12.00 Sara Wintz (Bard College, US), Performance: TWENTIETH CENTURY
12.30 Mairéad Byrne (Rhode Island School of Design, US), Performance: HARSAWLYA: a vocal engagement with the poems of Mairtín Ó Direáin
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 4.00 Panel on writing & gender
• Robert Hampson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Paper: Lost and Found: Women Poets and the Academy
• Andrea Brady (Queen Mary University, UK), Paper: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Poet
• Carrie Etter (Bath Spa, UK) Paper: on Infinite Difference
• Sara Wintz Paper: After ‘Numbers Trouble’
• Lee Ann Brown as respondent + Q&A / open floor
4.00 – 4.30 Break
4.30 Elizabeth Jane Burnett (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Performance: EXOTIC BIRDS
5.00 Jennifer Cooke (Loughborough University, UK), Performance: STEEL GIRDERED HER MUSICAL + music by composer Adam Robinson
5.30 Daniel Kane (University of Sussex, UK), Paper: Patti Smith & the Lower East Side poetry scene
6.00 Christine Kennedy (Sheffield, UK), Performance: HOBBY HORSE (Cabaret Voltaire, the First World War, CERN, Alice and the rabbit hole, and Heinrich von Kleist)
6.30 – 7.00 Break
7.00 Andrea Brady, Performance: poems on landscapes, photomontage, infancy, politics and pleasure
7.30 Susana Gardner (Switzerland), Performance: HERSO AND HYPER-PHANTASIE CONSTRUCTS
8.00 Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Performance: THE LOST SWIMMING POOL (for Esther Williams and the Lost Olympics; and for Jane Holloway and Elizabeth Jesser Reid)
8.30 Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University, Pennsylvania, US), Performance: DRAFT 101: PUPPET OPERA
16th July (in Room KW303)
11.00 Edmund Hardy (UK) Paper: A Little Ghost: Barbara Guest, Politics & Perception
11.30 Francesca Lisette (University of Sussex, UK), Performance: A HISTORY OF AUTONOMY & ANGER
12.00 Juliana Spahr & David Buuck (California, US), Performance: THE SIDE EFFECT
12.30 Vanessa Place Performance: THIS IS NOT A POEM
1.00 – 2.00 Lunch
2.00 – 3.30 Panel on Genre
• Holly Pester (UK) Paper: 'New understandings of Intermedia in art and poetry'
• Vanessa Place (US) Paper: ‘Conceptual poetics <> Gender’
• Elizabeth Jane Burnett Paper: Exotic Birds: Working Through Otherness in Contemporary Interdisciplinary Performance by Women
• Sara Wintz as respondent + Q&A / open floor
3.30 – 4.00 Break
4.00 Alev Adil (University of Greenwich, UK), Performance: A TIME MACHINE (an extract from Memory in the Dead Zone)
4.30 Corina Copp Paper: on the poetry of Jean Day
5.00 Carol Watts Performance: THIS IS RED + video
5.30 Emily Critchley Performance: SOME CURIOUS THING (after Retallack’s Memnoir + Peter Zinovieff’s The Mask of Orpheus + Agnus Dei by Zinovieff)
6.00 – 6.30 Break
6.30 Jean Day (CA, US), Performance: THE MINOR FIGURE + poetry
7.00 Lisa Jarnot (NY, US), Performance: AMEDELLIN COOPERATIVE NOSEGAY
7.30 Frances Kruk (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK), Performance: CONCERNING THE PATHOLOGICAL ELLIPSES WITHIN THE PLASTICITY OF HISTORICAL MAKING
8.00 Lisa Robertson (CA, US), Performance: poetry & video piece made + Allyson Clay
8.30 Festival Dinner