International Conference
Friday, May 20th
Saturday, May 21st
Doelenzaal,
Universiteitsbibliotheek
Singel 425
1012WP Amsterdam
Organizers:
Dr Rudolph Glitz (UvA)
[email protected]
Dr Diederik Oostdijk (VU)
[email protected]
ASCA
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Thursday
19.00 – 21.00
Pre-Conference Poetry Reading at the ABC Treehouse
Featuring Louis Armand, Robert Sheppard, Jane Lewty, and Jeff Hilson
Friday
9.00 – 9.30
REGISTRATION AND OPENING
9.30 – 10.30
Keynote Lecture by Prof. Peter Barry, University of Aberystwyth
„“Monumental Errors”: Facts and Counter-Facts in Poetry‟
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE
11.00 – 12.30
First Panel Session: Theorising the Unpoetic
Prof. David Ayers, University of Kent, Canterbury
„Alterity and “Ignorance”: the “Unpoetic” as a Question of Ethics‟
Prof. Eva Mueller-Zettelmann, University of Vienna
„Lyric Labour‟
Prof. Robert Sheppard, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
„Poetic Form as Forms of Meaning: Base Material and the Signet of Form
in John Seed‟s “Pictures from Mayhew”‟
12.30 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30
Second Panel Session: Unpoetic Genres
Jeff Hilson, Roehampton University, London
„The Sonnet and the Unpoetic‟
Mariacristina Bertoli, University of Fribourg (CH)
„Riddles and Poems: For a Theory of Riddling Poetry‟
Dr David Bousquet, University of Strasbourg
„Dis Poetry: Redefining the (Un)poetic in the Postcolonial World‟
15.30 – 16.00
COFFEE
16.00 – 17.30
Third Panel Session: Parisians, Cut-ups, Beats, and Detritus
Dr Louis Armand, Charles University Prague
„“A Comprehender Seizes an Opportunity”: On Karen MacCormack‟s
Implexures‟
Dr Jaap van der Bent, Radboud University Nijmegen
„A Pair of Scissors in Paris: Europe and Beat Experimentation‟
Dr Franca Bellarsi, Free University of Brussels
„Waste as a Path to Transcendence: Allen Ginsberg‟s Recording of the
Unpoetic Here and Now‟
17.30 – 18.00
BREAK AND TRANSIT TO CONFERENCE DINNER VENUE
Saturday
9.30 – 10.30
Keynote Lecture by Prof. Alexander Nemerov, Yale University
„Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov – A Resemblance‟
10.30 – 11.00
COFFEE
11.00 – 12.30
Fourth Panel Session: Intermedial Unpoetics
David Vichnar, Charles University Prague
„Steve McCaffery‟s Classical Departures‟
Niall Martin, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis
„“[A] more generous sentence”: Unpoetic Economies in Iain Sinclair‟s Lud
Heat‟
Juha Virtanen, University of Kent, Canterbury
„Creaking Beams, Edible Magazines, Place and Blood Bone Brain:
“Poetry and the Unpoetic” in Allen Fisher?‟
12.30 – 14.00
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30
Fifth Panel Session: Difficulty and the Unpoetic
Prof. Tim Kendall, University of Exeter
„Robert Frost‟s Unpoetical Rhythms‟
Dr Richard Parker, University of Sussex, Brighton
„Basil Bunting‟s Difficulty Reading Louis Zukofsky: Difficulty vs. the
Unpoetic‟
Dr Jane Lewty, University of Amsterdam
„Voice-Centered: Diversion and Resistance. Claiming the New in 21stcentury U.S. Poetics‟
15.30 – 16.00
COFFEE
16.00 – 17.30
Sixth Panel Session: The Unpoetic on the Page
Ruth Hawthorn, University of Glasgow
„“[M]emory and invention”: Delmore Schwartz‟s Genesis‟
Prof. Peter Liebregts, University of Leiden
„Elegomena: a Reading/Viewing of Anne Carson‟s “NOX”‟
17.30 – 18.00
SYNTHESIZING DISCUSSION AND FUTURE PLANS
In addition to the academic institutions involved, this conference is supported by:
In parallel to the conference on „Poetry and the Unpoetic‟ in Amsterdam, the Parisian review La Traductière publishes a bilingual Anglo-French issue on „The Fields of the Word‟, focussing on the way poetry
appropriates different extra-poetic human languages to transform them into poems. As contributors to
this issue, 41 poets from around the world are making poems from the unpoetic and six poets and academics are offering their reflections on this subject: Gabrielle Althen (Paris), Antoine Boisclair and MarieAndrée Lamontagne (Montreal), Anna Crowe (St Andrews, Scotland), Rudolph Glitz (Amsterdam), and
Stefaan van den Bremt (Brussels). For further information, purchase, and subscription, see
www.festrad.com.