CFP: Louis MacNeice: Centenary Conference and Celebration (5/31/07; 9/12/07-9/15/07)

Louis MacNeice: Centenary Conference and Celebration 12-15 September 2007
Seamus Heaney Centre, School of English, Queen’s University Belfast,
Northern Ireland Deadline for Papers: 31 May 2007 The poet Louis MacNeice
(1907-1963) was born in Belfast on 12 September 1907. He is central to the
history of modern poetry in Ireland and Britain. His life and work also
exemplify the complexity of literary, cultural and political intercourse
between Ireland and Britain during the Twentieth Century. In September 2007
leading critics and poets will gather in Belfast to explore and celebrate
his achievement. They include: Jonathan Allison, Simon Armitage, Terence
Brown, Neil Corcoran, Valentine Cunningham, Paul Farley, Michael Longley,
Peter McDonald, Medbh McGuckian, Sinead Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Don
Paterson, Jon Stallworthy and Clair Wills. Papers are invited on MacNeice’s
poetry, prose and plays; his place in modern poetry and relation to
Modernism; his literary, cultural and political contexts in Ireland and
Britain; his relation to precursors such as W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot; his
relation to contemporaries such as W.H. Auden; his influence on later
poets; his intellectual world; his literary criticism; his role as a
broadcaster. To propose a paper (time limit: 20 minutes), please send a
200-word summary and a short biography to Dr Leontia Flynn
(l.flynn_at_qub.ac.uk). For general enquiries, contact Professor Edna Longley
(e.longley_at_qub.ac.uk). Postal address: Seamus Heaney Centre, School of
English, Queen’s University, Belfast BT7 1NN. For further information see
the Seamus Heaney Centre website (www.qub.ac.uk/heaneycentre) where details
of the conference will be updated as appropriate.

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Dr Philip McGowan
Senior Lecturer
School of English
Queen's University Belfast
Ph: 028 90973261
Fax: 028 90314615
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