This free event, hosted by York St John University, is in partnership with the International Poetry Studies Institute (IPSI), based at the University of Canberra. The symposium will be followed by an evening reading/performance and book launch.
Draft Programme
9.30 – 10.00 Coffee and Welcome
10.00 – 11.30 Panel 1: Recent Research in Creative Writing at York St John
Naomi Booth, Helen Pleasance, and JT Welsch
11.30 – 13.00 Panel 2: Prose Poetry
Shane Strange, Anne Caldwell, and Oliver Comins
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3: First Encounters: Investigating the origins of contemporary poetic practice
Paul Munden, Paul Hetherington, and Jen Webb
15.30 – 16.30 Open Discussion: Creative Culture & Creative Writing
18.00 – 19.30 Evening Event (with refreshments)
Poetry reading by Paul Munden from Analogue/Digital: New and Selected Poems (Smith/Doorstop), launched by Paul Hetherington
Performance of cases of sudden conversion by Kimberly Campanello (York St John University – poetry, viola, vocals) and Jon Hughes (University of York – composer, percussion, vocals, India field recordings)