The CWWA's 'Contemporary Women's Poetry: Lines and Landscapes' conference is taking place on Friday 5th April 2019 at the Hastings campus of the University of Brighton.

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For enquiries, please contact Dr Irralie Doel and Dr Helen Davies at cwwpoetryconference2019@gmail.com

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We are delighted to announce Dr Nerys Williams (University College, Dublin) as our keynote, and we have an exciting programme of critical and creative speakers for the day. 

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Please see below for the call for papers (deadline for submission 15th February 2019):

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Poetry by women is wide-ranging, diverse and polyphonic. It works through and across lines and landscapes, to create individual poems, collections, and bodies of work and, through traversing these in multiple ways, to establish clusters and constellations which both speak to and disrupt traditions of poetry and poetics. This conference aims to take stock of contemporary women’s poetry, to begin to map the terrain and to articulate some of the lines and landscapes that women’s poetry explores.

 

We warmly invite critics, poets, editors, publishers, teachers, practitioners and students to join us to delineate and discuss contemporary women’s poetry in all its forms and in its current critical contexts. Topics might include but are not limited to:

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•  contemporary currents, trends and themes in women’s poetry

• categorisation of women poets and women’s poetry

• ‘experimental’, ‘innovative’ or ‘other’ poetry

• form and structure

• sound

• performance

• feminist politics and poetics

• poetry and activism

• poetry and resistance

• poetry and the environment

• geography, landscape and space

• poetry and politics

• poetry at times of crisis

• legacy and influence in contemporary women’s poetry

• lyric

• confession

• poetry and technology

• creative process and practice

• poetry anthologies

• translation

• editing

• publishing

• teaching contemporary women’s poetry

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Creative and innovative forms of presentation are welcome!

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