CFP: W.S. Graham (UK) (1/14/05; 4/9/05-4/10/05)

CALL FOR PAPERS

W.S. Graham - "What is he like?"

9th-10th April 2005
University of Cambridge

The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the poet W. S. Graham. The publication of Graham’s "Uncollected Poems", "Aimed at Nobody: Poems from Notebooks", "The Nightfisherman: Selected Letters of W.S. Graham", and most recently the "New Collected Poems", has made more of his work available than ever before. Critical studies including "The Constructed Space: A Celebration of W.S. Graham", "W.S. Graham: Critical Essays" and "Where the People Are: Language and Community in the Poetry of W.S. Graham" have enabled new critical perspectives on that work.

In the light of these developments, we invite contributions from scholars with an interest in Graham for a two-day conference to take place over the weekend of the 9th-10th April 2005 at the University of Cambridge. We welcome proposals for individual papers on any aspect of Graham’s life and work, but would like to suggest some possible areas on which the conference might focus:

- Graham’s relation to experimental writing in the pre- and post-war periods
- Graham’s influence on subsequent developments in poetry and poetics
- Graham and occasional poetry
- Ut pictura poesis theory
- Theories of artistic community

Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words before 14th January 2005.

Email to:

wsgraham2005_at_graffiti.net

Or by post:

W.S. Graham Conference 2005
c/o Rebecca Barr
Jesus College
Cambridge
CB5 8BL
UK

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