Poetry and RevolutionConference Schedule
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Friday 25 May 2012
19.30-23:00 Conference Reading
Tom Leonard
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Jack Hirschman
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Ziba Karbassi
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Marianne Morris
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Sean Bonney
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Harry Gilonis
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At Xing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant WC1
This reading is sponsored by Birkbeck College Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in association with the XING the Line reading series, as part of the Poetry and Revolution International Conference.
Door charge: £5 waged and £3 unwaged. All proceeds to the poets.
Numbers are limited: first come first served.
Saturday 26 May 2012 - Papers
10:00-11:30
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Alex Latter
Peter Jaeger
John Cage, Anarchy, and Anarchy
Abigail De Kosnik
Revolutionary “Fic”: Political and Economic Crises Transmediated and Inter(in)animated by Media Fans
Fabian Macpherson
William Morris’s Chants for Socialists and the Problem of Utopia
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Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Steve Willey
John Mateer
The Poem “Invictus” and the Negotiated Revolution
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Mandy Bloomfield
Revolution in spatial poetics
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George Paizis
‘Marcel Martinet is the Poet of the Revolution’
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Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Robert Hampson
Mary Coghill
Russian Formalism and Revolution: Elena Guro (1877-1913) Russian Formalist writer and contemporary of Roman Jakobson (pseudonym: Aljagrov)
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William Allegrezza
Charles Bernstein’s Disruptive Praxis
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Sean Bonney
Notes on Militant Poetics
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12.00-13.00
* Room 152/153
Jack Hirschman Keynote talk
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14:00-15:30
Panel A (Room 355) Chair: Carol Watts
Amy De’Ath
‘Not not this. What, this then?’ : Kevin Davies and the Merely Interesting
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Michael Zand
Reclaiming the House of Leo. Lion as a poetic response to the impact of the Islamic Revolution on the treatment of the Iranian “lion and sun” motif.
Becky Cremin
to initiate a poetics of occupation. occupy as poetics : poetics as occupy
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Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Aodan McCardle
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Cries, crises. Greek Passions
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Piotr Gwiazda
Ether: Conformity and Resistance in Contemporary US Poetry
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Allen Fisher
Aesthetic response to the Fascist State
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Panel C (Room 353) Chair: Sean Bonney
Danny Hayward
Revolutionary Poetry and Reactionary Thinking
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Karen Veitch
‘Heat is par excellence the communist of our universe’: Muriel Rukeyser and the poetics of thermodynamic socialism
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Amy Evans
“Revolution or Death”: Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan and the problem of the English gentlewoman as revolutionary
16.00-17.00
* Room 152/153
Joan Retallack keynote talk
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19:00-22:30 Conference Reading
(19:00-20:00) VLAK: Launch of Special Issue of VLAK on Occupations
(20:00-22:30) Joan Retallack, Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak
At The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
This reading is sponsored by Birkbeck College Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in association with Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre, as part of the Poetry and Revolution International Conference
Door charge: £6 waged and £4 unwaged. All proceeds to the poets.
Numbers are limited: first come first served.
Sunday 27 May 2012 - Papers
10:00-11:30
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Peter Jaeger
Julie Carr
The Eros of Utopia: William Morris, Lisa Robertson
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cris cheek
murmuration of poeisis : praxis between control and emergence
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Harry Gilonis
Ch'iu Chin (1875-1907) and Chinese, revolutionary, poetics
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Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Steve Willey
Jeffrey C. Robinson
A Radical Romantic Poetry: Poems for the Millennium, Three
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Jennifer Cooke
“Public Disorder” and Poetry, 2010-2011
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Richenda Power
Post-'68 Poetry and Self: voices from a commune
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Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Aodan McCardle
Kaia Sand
Landscapes of Dissent: seven notes on the Occupy Movements.
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William Rowe
Bill Griffiths: the Negative and the Multiple
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Zoë Skoulding
Translation and irruptive citizenship in the poetry of Erín Moure
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Discussion: click here for an audio recording of the discussion section of this panel
12:00-13:30
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Will Montgomery
David Buuck
WE ARE ALL SOUND: POETICS & PUBLIC SPACE IN THE OCCUPY OAKLAND MOVEMENT
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Stephen Mooney
Insuperable Underlanguage: Epochal Change and Will Rowe’s Nation
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Rachel Galvin
Incantation and Recantation in the English and French Revolutionary Ode
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Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Stephen Watts
Richard Owens
SHATTERED SPACE AND LYRIC PRACTICE
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Steven Fowler
Dada: the ethical exception.
David Kessel
Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Jeff Hilson
Keston Sutherland
Revolution and Really Being Alive
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Jacob Edmond
Revolution’s Echo: Poetry after 1989
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Josh Robinson
Adorno, Lyric, and the Poetics of the Wrong State of Things
14:30-16:00
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Harry Gilonis
Paul Sutton
Poetry and Revolution
Wayne Clements
The return of what has been forgotten
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Revolution and Poetry (a reply to Drew Milne)
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David Vichnar
TRANSITION IN LANGUAGE: FROM TRANSITION TO L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
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Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Luis Trindade
Maria Damon
Micropoetries as Po(e)tential Kindling for Greater Revolution
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Robin Purves
Deconstruction Fucked My Beatrice
Albert Pellicer on Cecilia Vicuna
SABORAMI by Cecilia Vicuña, then & now
Panel C (Room G15) Chair: William Rowe
Andy Croft (Smokestack Books)
Je suis tous les autres : common music and radical poetry
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Association of Musical Marxists
“Why Destroy”
16.30-17.30
* Room 152/153
Mark Nowak keynote with immigrant workers from UNITE
17:30-18:00 General discussion
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[thanks to Colin Still for the recordings of the XING the Line readings, the Jack Hirschman and Joan Retallack keynote presentations, the Sean Bonney, Keston Sutherland, cris cheek, David Vichnar, Harry Gilonis and Danny Hayward papers, and the closing General Discussion section]