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[If you happen to be in London in early May, I'm coming for a visit and appearing here.]
The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) Birkbeck presents:
The Birkbeck Contemporary Poetry Conference – ‘On the Language’
Friday May 7th 2004
13:45 - Introduction by William Rowe.
14:00 to 15:30 - Language Now session
- Bruce Andrews – [‘Reading & Poetics’]
- Redell Olsen – [‘Visual Performance, Process and Poetics’]
- Jed Rasula – [‘Licence for Nonsense: Mystification and Opportunism in the wake of Language Poetry’]
- Robert Sheppard – [‘The Poetics of Maggie O’Sullivan’]
16:00 to 17:30 - The ‘Edges of Language’ session
- John Cayley – [‘Undeferred: Poetics, Inscription & Time’]
- Rob Holloway
- Brian Kim Stefans – [‘Circulars as Anti-Poem’]
19:00 to 21:30 (-ish) - Readings [1]
- Caroline Bergvall
- Ulli Freer – [‘BURNER ON THE BUFF’]
- Bill Griffiths – [‘The New North East’]
- Rod Mengham – [‘Terra Infirma’]
- Jed Rasula – [‘Tabula Rasula’]
- Brian Kim Stefans – [‘Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics’]
Saturday May 8th 2004
13:30 to 15:30 - Language & Design in Poetry Session
- Caroline Bergvall
- Bill Griffiths – ['Variations of Language']
- Pierre Joris – [‘Towards a Nomad Poetics: Poetry and Translation in a Global Age’]
- Peter Middleton
16:00 to 17:45(-ish) - Movement – Image – Text Session
- Brian Catling – [‘Muffled Blurs’]
- cris cheek
- Iain Sinclair [‘The City of Disappearances’]
- Lawrence Upton
19:00 to 21:30(-ish) – Readings [2]
- Gilbert Adair [‘Here as a Genre’]
- Bruce Andrews – [‘Recent Performativity’]
- Brian Catling – [‘In Advance of Puppeted Words’]
- Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte – [“S U M E R I C A V E –’]
- Redell Olsen – [‘Recent Work’]
- Aaron Williamson [‘Of Lives and Saints’]
Venue : Birkbeck College, Mallet Street, London WC1E 7HX, room b36
Nearest Tubes: Russell Square, Euston, Euston Square, Warren Street
Admission:
2 days £20/£10 concessions, 1 day £12/£8
Readings only £6/£3 per day
Tickets on the day.
Contact:
Stephen on 020 72444670 or at estaphin@hotmail.com
Piers at 07780 767099 or at piershugill@hotmail.com