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Friday 5th April 2019

 

Priory Building, University of Brighton in Hastings

 

 

8.45-9.15     Registration (Priory Foyer)

 

9.15-9.30     Welcome (Priory 402)

 

9.30-10.30    Keynote: Nerys Williams (University College Dublin) (Priory 402) (Chair: Irralie Doel): ‘Things are larger than the personal way of telling. Intimate confession is a project’ (Juliana Spahr): Documentation, lyric and some recent American poetics.

 

 

10.30-11.00   Break (Café, 1st floor)

 

11.00-12.20   Parallel panels A

 

1. Writing life (Chair TBC)

Jane Simmons, ‘Motherhood and Loss in the Work of Rebecca Goss and Karen McCarthy Woolf’

 

Tricia Connell, ‘Call it woman’s work’: The Creative Potential of Motherhood in Carol Ann Duffy’s Poetry’

 

Sarah L. Webb, ‘Extending Cross-Cultural Lifelines: Collective Healing in an International Writing Contest’

 

1. Identity (Chair TBC)

 

Yuting Wu, ‘Black, Chinese, and Lesbian: Multiple Identities and Black British feminism in Meiling Jin’s poetry’

 

JuEunhae Knox, ‘#Nofilter: Forking Hashed Lightning through Instapoetry, Poe(t/m)-Tagging, and Literary Naturalism’

 

Jessica Sharville, ‘The Lost Women of Subcultures’

 

12.20-1.20     Lunch

 

1.20-2.40      Parallel panels B

 

1. Postgraduate workshop

 

Irralie Doel, ‘Critical and Creative Practice’

 

1. Visual Poetics (Chair TBC)

 

Alexander Bell, ‘‘Intermedial Strategies in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red’

 

Jean Owen, ‘S/KIN: An Experiment in Non-Verbal Poetry

 

Norinne Betjemann, ‘Emily and Me’

 

2.40-4.00     Parallel panels C

 

1. Environment (Chair TBC)

Tuesday Goacher, ‘Reimagining Urbanity: Place Attachment and the Urban Imaginary in Helen Mort’s Division Street’

 

Philip Jones, ‘Already Passing: the Anthropocene, futurity and pessimism in Jorie Graham’s Fast’

 

Jane Ford and Jenna Clake, ‘‘The trees walk backwards in the dark’: Entanglement and the EcoGothic in Kate Kilalea’s Hennecker’s Ditch’

 

1. Time, Place and Space (Chair TBC)

 

Joanne Dixon, ‘Flight-lines: Literary Epiphany and Contemporary Women’s Poetry’

 

Nicholas Johnson, ‘Sound, Narrative, and their Vicinity of Place’

 

Agnieszka Studzinska, ‘What Alice Says?’

 

4.00-4.30     Break

 

4.30-5.40     Panel 7: Poetic (Re)Inscriptions and (Re)Imaginations (Chair TBC)

 

Ruth Stacey, ‘Layering Voices: Using the Prose Poetry Form and Symbolist Poetry Techniques to write the Imagined Memoir of Pamela Colman Smith’

 

Helen Dixon, ‘Pearlfields: A Poetic Fictional Archive’

 

Maureen Fielding, ‘Poetry reading’

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Jane Simmons, 'Poetry reading'

 

5.40-6.00     Closing Discussion/Remarks.

 

6.00-7.00         Wine reception