Thursday 13 th July
10.30 – 11.45 Paper Sessions A1-A5
Session A1 Title: Whitman and his Legacy
Danny Robinson, Bloomsburg University, USA.
David K. Heckerl, Saint Mary’s University, Canada.
Rachel Harmon, University of New Mexico, USA.
Session A2 Title: Ekphrasis
Room: C1 Chair: Rory Watson, University of Stirling
The Polemics of Publishing: The Unlikely Birth of Leaves of Grass
Kateb's Whitman: Democracy, Poetry, and Human Extinction
Exclusive Spaces: Sharon Olds' and Walt Whitman's Gender Privileged Creativity
Soeren Hattesen Balle, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Anne Keefe, Rutgers University, USA.
Daniel Cross Turner, Siena College, USA.
Room: D1
The Politics of Genre and Medium
Washington Crossing the Delaware
Chair: Dorothy Alexander, University of Glasgow apropos of Frank O'Hara's 'On Seeing Larry Rivers's
' (1955): Ekphrasis and Representation
'Geometry of the visible': Eavan Boland, Ekphrasis, and Ars Poetica
Photographic Memory: Natasha Trethewey's Calculated Disarray
. 'A deliberate collection of cross purposes'
Session A3 Title: Poetry and Pedagogy Room: D3 Chair: Suzanne Gilbert, University of Stirling
Anne F. Herzog, West Chester University, USA. What Is (and Isn't) Found There: Indifference, Boredom, and Today's U.S. High School 'Poetry Unit'
Julia Lisella, Regis College, USA.
Priscila Uppal, York University, Canada
Teaching Poetry and Politics in an American University
‘Who Cares?’: Teaching Creative Writing as Political Activity to the ‘It’s all about Me’ Generation
Session A4 Title: Poetry and Soviet Politics
Tony Brinkley, University of Maine, USA
Room: A7 Chair: Adrian Hunter, University of Stirling
& Raina Kostova, Emory University, USA
Natalia Vid, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
Vera Shamina, Kazan State University, Russia
Session A5 Title:
Constructions of ‘Poet’ (1)
Christophe Fricker, St John’s College, Oxford, UK.
Christy Scheuer, University of Illinois, USA.
Annette Pankratz, University of Passau
Mandelshtam's Mastery
Political - Ideological Translations of Robert Burns' Poems in the Soviet Union
Political and Ideological Approaches to the Translation and Interpretation of British Poetry in Soviet Russia
Room: C23 Chair: Cedric Barfoot, Leiden University
The Changing Role of the Poet in Stefan George’s Late Works
'The house of the poet': Muriel Rukeyser's Poetics of Hospitality
British Poets Laureate Between Politics and Literature
& University of Siegen, Germany.
1.45 – 3.00 Paper Sessions B1-B5
Session B1 Title: Césaire and Glissant
John Maerhofer, CUNY Graduate Centre, NY, USA.
Room: D3 Chair: Gemma Robinson, University of Stirling
Aimé Césaire and the Crisis of Aesthetic and Political Vanguardism

Lorna Burns, University of Glasgow, UK.
Evan Bibbee, University of Saint Thomas, USA.
A Field of Islands: Édourd Glissant’s Cross-Cultural Poetics of the Caribbean Landscape
In Search of the Next Cahier : Poetry and Politics in Martinique Today
Session B2 Title: Poetry and the Nation (1) Room: C1 Chair: Cedric Barfoot, Leiden University
Diana Forman, Murdoch University, Australia. The Furnace of Los: The Political Dimension of William B lake's Final Prophetic Poem,
Jerusalem, The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Paul Tenngart, Lund University, Sweden.
Smita Agarwal, University of Allahabad, India.
Session B3 Title: Problematic Identities
Rebels Without a Cause? Riots and Romantic Poetry in Post-war Sweden
India: The Nation in Verse; Pre and Post Independence Poetry in English
Room: A7 Chair: Sheree Mack, University of Newcastle upon-Tyne
Sharon L. Barnes, University of Toledo, USA.
Zoe Brigley, University of Warwick, UK.
Session B4 Title: Neoliberalism and Globalisation
Marvellous Arithmetics: Audre Lorde and the Political Challenge of Difference
'Every Difference is Significant': A New Feminist Poetics between Didacticism and Essentialism
Room: D1 Chair: Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Jeff Derksen, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Cornelia Gräbner,
Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, Netherlands.
Robin Purves, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
Poetry and the Neoliberal Movement
Political Performance Poetry and the Market
Politics and Poetry in the Future Perfect Tense: On Some Recent Work by Keston Sutherland
Session B5 Title: Poetry and Commitment (1)
Kathleen Bell, De Montford University, UK.
Amy Evans, King’s College London,
University of London, UK.
Ashley Chantler, University of Chester, UK.
Friday 14 th July
09.00-10.15 Paper Sessions C1-C5
Room: C23 Chair: Brian Abel Ragen, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
'the force … is clearly with them': Dissent and Opposition in the Later Auden
‘Verbal Atrocity’: Warring Poetics and the Erotic in Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
Against Tub-thumping: Zbigniew Herbert and the Extraction of Meaning
Session C1 Title: Seventeenth-Century Politics
Andrea Brady, Brunel University, UK.
Emma Wilson, University of St Andrews, UK.
Robert Mayer, Oklahoma State University, USA.
Session C2 Title: South African Poetry (1)
Mary DeShazer, Wake Forest University, USA.
Room: A7
Room: D1
Chair: Annette Pankratz, Universities of Passau and Siegen
Katherine Philips and the Politics of Friendship
Andrew Marvell and the Politics of Garden Maintenance
Politics and the Elegy: The Case of Lucy Hutchinson
Chair: Evie Shockley, Rutgers University
Postapartheid Literacies: South African Women’s Poetry of Franchise and Reconciliation

Rishma Dunlop &
Vanessa Barnett, York University, Canada.
Michael Rozendal, University of San Francisco, USA.
Alwin A.D. Jones, University of Virginia, USA.
Session C4 Title: Robert Lowell
Armed With Stones and Dreams: Politics and the Child in South African Poetry
Session C3 Title: The State of the Union (1)
Sheryl L. Meyering,
Room: D3 Chair: Scott Hames, University of Stirling
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA. 'No fetters in the Bay State': The Northern Response to Slavery
Political Execution, Poetic Coalition: Representing Sacco and Vanzetti in the Early Thirties
Poetry, a Black Political Matter: God, Race, and Gender in the Prophetics/Poetics of Saul Stacey Williams
Stephen James, University of Bristol, UK.
Reena Sastri, Boston University, USA.
Diederik Oostdijk, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
Room: C23 Chair: Adrian Hunter, University of Stirling
Robert Lowell: The Poet and Tyrant
Agency, Relationality, and the Political in Lowell's Day by Day
Robert Lowell’s Manic Masculinity
Session C5 Title: Experimental Poetics (1): Surrealism
Anthony Caleshu, University of Plymouth, UK.
Ernesto Suárez-Toste,
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Room: C1 Chair: Soeren Hattesen Balle, Aalborg University
Bivouacked between Worlds: James Tate and the Vietnam Years
'I am not a surrealist': Elizabeth Bishop's Gentle Censorship
Gemma Robinson, University of Stirling, UK. Snapshot of a Caribbean Intelligentsia: Surrealism and Politics in Guyana
10.15 – 11.15 Paper Sessions D1 – D5
Session D1 Title: Migrating Subjects: Exiles
Sheshalatha Reddy, University of Michigan, USA.
David Callahan, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal.
Room: C1 Chair: Angela Smith, University of Stirling
The Form(ing) of Nation: Indian Poets, British Empire, and the 'Lyric of Exile' in the Nineteenth Century
‘There's nothing I can't find under there': Survival Strategies in the Poetry of Li-Young Lee
Session D2 Title: The Politics of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry
Jacob Edmond, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Room: A7 Chair: Anthony Caleshu, University of Plymouth
Theory and Practice in the Politics of Language Poetry
Tatiani Rapatzikou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. The 'negative potential' of Bruce Andrews's Language Politics
Session D3 Title: Ecocriticisms
Marilyn J. Rose, Brock University, Canada.
Håkan Sandgren, Högskolan Kristianstad, Sweden.
Room: D3 Chair: Jenny Bann, University of Stirling
Eco-lyricism: Power and Politics in the Nature Poetry of Lorna Crozier
Ecological Politics in Swedish Poetry of the 1980s

Session D4
Session D5
Title: Speech and Identity: Orality and Literature
Jamie A. Hughes, University of North Florida, USA.
Katrien Van der Aa, University of Leuven, Belgium.
Title: Chartism
Room: D1
"Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot": The Politics of Identity in the Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance
'The empire rhymes back': Oral Caribbean Poetry and its Reception in the West
Room: C23
Chair: Sheree Mack, University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne
Chair: Scott Hames, University of Stirling
'Rhymes of a most rubbishly description': Poetry as Politics in the Northern Star's Poetry Column
Irish Illustrations: The Conscription of Irish 'Heroes' for Chartist Poetry
Mike Sanders, University of Manchester, UK.
Timothy Keane, National University of Ireland, Ireland.
11.45 – 1.00 Paper Sessions E1 – E5
Session E1 Title: Poetry and the Nation (2)
Steven Matthews, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Ben van Humbeeck,
Room: C23 Chair: Brian Abel Ragen, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
T.S. Eliot and the Politics of Allusion
Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
Stef Craps, Ghent University, Belgium.
Session E2 Title: Blues Lyrics
Harriet Davidson, Rutgers University, USA.
Glenn Sheldon, University of Toledo, USA.
Jihee Han, Yonsei University, South Korea.
Nation Building in Flanders (1980-94)
Beyond Recovery: Witnessing, Ethics and Nationhood in the Poetry of Eavan Boland
Room: D1 Chair: Bent Soerensen, Aalborg University
'New words in their mouths': Langston Hughes's Weary Blues and Polemical Ballads
Two Blues Poems: Thomas McGrath’s Poetry of American Politics
Modern Bardic Aesthetics in Langston Hughes' Weary Blues and Kyong-Nim Shin's Love Song for Poor
Folks
Session E3 Title: Poetry and Political Spaces
Jules Boykoff, Pacific University, USA
Zoë Skoulding, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
Room: D3 Chair: Rory Watson, University of Stirling
Poems in the Streets: Poetry, Dissent, and the Politicization of Public Space in the United States
Underground: Owning and Disowning Urban Space in the Poetry of Alice Notley
Kevin McGuirk, University of Waterloo, Canada. Cornell '69 and the Ammons Poetic
Session E4 Title: The Politics of the Sacred and Prophetic
Robin Waugh, Wilfred Laurier University, Canada
Room: A7 Chair: Sheryl Meyering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
The Debate in Cynewulf’s Elene : Politics, the Law, and the Individual
Allen C. Jones, University of New Mexico, USA.
Lisa Katz, Hebrew University, Israel.
Session E5 Title: Revisions, Re-visions and Justice
Robinson Jeffers and the Call to Action: An Ecocritical Treatment of Jeffers' Transhuman Sublime
Who Loves Jerusalem? Unlawful Politics in Contemporary Israeli Poetry
Room: C1 Chair: Rose Lucas, Monash University
Barbara J. McGrath, College of the Southwest, USA. Political Animals in the Landscape of the Revisionist Poem: Eavan Boland's 'War
Horse' and Adrienne Rich's 'Fox-Vixen'

Mary Lynn Broe, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Beyond 'verbal privilege': Negotiating the Transformative Politics in Adrienne Rich's poetry
Miriam Marty Clark, Auburn University, USA. Bodily Pain and the Jurisdiction of Justice in Contemporary American Poetry
(Adrienne Rich and Jean Valentine)
2.15 – 3.15 Paper Sessions F1-F5
Session F1 Title: Poetry and Disability
David J. Connor, Hunter College – CUNY, USA.
Beth A. Ferri, Syracuse University, USA.
Session F2 Title: Poetry and the ‘Everyday’
Victoria Bazin, Northumbria University, UK.
Dámaso López García,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Session F3 Title: Political Landscapes: Canada
Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Steve Cloutier, St Mary’s University, Canada.
Session F5 Title: ‘Deleuzean’ Poetics
Sarah Posman, University of Ghent, Belgium.
Erik Bordeleau, University of Montreal, Canada.
3.15 – 4.30 Poetry Sessions G1 – G5
Session G1 Room: D1
Joe Gouveia (USA)
Rose Lucas (Australia)
Room: A7 Chair: John Drakakis, University of Stirling
Gilles Deleuze meets 'Patriarchal Poetry'
China and the line: A study of the Chinese Reference in Thousand Plateaus
Chair: Susan Azar Porterfield
Room: D1
Room: D3
Chair: Dale Townshend, University of Stirling
'I feel like there's something wrong with me': New York City Youth Labelled
Learning Disabled 'talk back' through Poetry
'Pimp' or 'Gimp': Explorations of Race and Disability in Lynn Manning's Weights
'I've spent my life in nothing': Lorine Niedecker and the Politics of Everyday Life
Philip Larkin: The Politics of Lifestyles
Room: C1
Chair: Lyn Barzilai, Oranim College, Haifa
Chair: Christine Wiesenthal, University of Alberta
Remapping the Political Landscape of the Canadian West: Walter
Hildebrandt’s Brooks: Coming Home and Where the Land Gets Broken
'Soon whores will be obvious at corners': Raymond Souster and the City
Roderick Watson (UK)
Session G2 Room: D3
Mark Yakich (USA)
Alan Soldofsky (USA)
Tony Brinkley & Raina Kostova (USA)
Chair: Sue Walker

Session G3 Room: A7
Sandra Simonds (USA)
Amy Evans (UK)
Ann Fisher-Wirth (USA)
Session G4 Room: C1
Helen Farish (UK)
Robert Gibbons (USA)
Bron Bateman (Australia)
Session G5 Room: C23
Andy Weaver (Canada)
Cedric Barfoot (Netherlands)
Jason Guriel (Canada)
Saturday 15 th July
Chair: Yvonne Murphy
Chair: Camelia Elias
Chair: Christopher Doda
09.00 – 10.15 Paper Sessions H1 – H5
Session H1 Title: Poetry and Commitment (2)
Gaston Franssen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands.
Room: D1 Chair: David Miller, John Cabot University, Rome
The Politics of Muteness: Silence and Political Commitment in Modern Poetry
Ben Bollig, University of Westminster, UK.
Anne Decelle, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.
Resistance and Cynicism: The committed Poet in Twentieth-century Argentine Verse
Stefan Hertmans and the (Im)Possibility of Committed Writing
Session H2 Title: Of War and Canons
Jean Mills, Hunter College, USA. The Radical
Room: C23
Wasteland
Chair: Grahame Smith, University of Stirling
: Hope Mirrlees’
Paris: A Poem
Jaime Weida, Fear in a handful of dust: Unreal Cities and Hollow Men in Eliot's The Waste Land
Borough of Manhattan Community College, USA.
Cori L. Gabbard, CUNY Graduate Center, USA. His Sword Rang in England's Head: Canonicity, Nationalism, and David Jones' In Parenthesis
Session H3 Title: Poetry and the Nation (3) Room: C1 Chair: Annette Pankratz, University of Passau
Pierre Carboni, University of Nantes, France. James Thomson's 'Doric reed': The Scottish Poet and the Politics of the Pastoral in Augustan Britain after the Union
Katherine Firth, Oxford Brookes University, UK Fanfares for Elizabeth: Poetry and the Coronation (1953)
Vincent Dussol, Université de Montpellier III, France. Versions of the Earth

Session H4 Title: Boundaries, Form and Tradition
Peter Howarth, University of Nottingham, UK.
Ali Fuat Bilkan,
Economics and Technology University, Turkey.
Joel Johnson, Augusta College, USA.
Room: A7 Chair: Sergi Mainer, University of Stirling
Artificial Boundaries: Poetry and Politics in Sally Potter's Yes
The contribution of Indian thought to Persian poetry: Sebk-I Hindi
(Indian-style poetic movement in Iran and Turkey)
Oppressive Rhyming: Orwell on Totalitarian Poetry and Politics
Session H5 Title: Constructions of ‘Poet’ (2)
C.C. Barfoot, University of Leiden, Netherlands.
Kevin A. Morrison, Rice University, USA.
Simon Kress, Emory University, USA.
10.15 – 11.30 Paper Sessions I1 – I5
Sessions I1 Title: Narrating Women
Fabienne Moine, University of Paris Nanterre, France.
Paula Guimarães, Minho University, Portugal.
Room: D3
The Politics of Keats’ Odes
Thomas Hardy at a Time of War
Politics and Poetic Self-Fashioning in Seamus Heaney’s North
Room: D3
Chair: Dale Townshend, University of Stirling
Cryptic Poems by Victorian Female Poets: The Power of Withholding Secrets
The Political Dimension of the Poetry Written by the Brontes: Dramatizing the Constructions of Class, Nation,
Religion and Gender
Chair: Patricia Tabarés Pérez, University of Valladolid
Poetry in the Cut: Harvests of Loss and Consolation in Two Poems by Jane Kenyon Rose Lucas, Monash University, Australia.
Sessions I2 Title: Dub Poetry
Bartosz Wojcik, UMCS Lublin, Poland.
David Bousquet, Université Marc Bloch, France.
Sessions I3 Title: Early Modern Politics
Elena Dominguez, University of Huelva, Spain
Room: D1
Exposing the Great Baton's Underbelly
Dub Poetry: From Political Message to a Politics of Identity
Room: A7
Chair: Angela Smith, University of Stirling
Chair: Stephen Penn, University of Stirling
Added Responses to Religious and Political Changes in the Spanish Diana and the English
An Alternative.
Writing International Protestantism: Politics and Psalmic Verse in Elizabethan England
Helicon .
Jenna Lay, Stanford University, USA.
Session I4 Title: Politics and Form
Billy Clem, Waubonse Community College
/ Northern Illinois University, USA.
Dana Salvador, University of New Mexico, USA.
Ursula McTaggart, Indiana University, USA.
The Feminization of Form
Making the Political Personal: Holocaust History, Contemporary Politics and Personal Narrative in Irena
Klepfisz's Poetry
Room: C23 Chair: Marilyn Rose, Brock University
'for every drop of blood': War, the villanelle, and Three U.S. English-language Poets

Session I5 Title: Selfhood and Otherness
Lyn Barzilai, University of Haifa, Israel.
Room: C1 Chair: Grahame Smith, University of Stirling
Exiled by Language: The Song of the Other in Margaret Atwood's Poetry
Chloe Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. R.S. Thomas and the Politics of (Mis)Recognition
Anjali Nerlekar, University of Kansas, USA. Dabydeen's 'Slave Song' and the Poetry of Translated Selves
12.00 – 1.15 Paper Sessions J1 – J5
Session J1 Title: Women and Embodiment
Helen Farish, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
Room: C1
'The terrible pressure of their contact': Political Daughters and Guilty Mothers in the Prose and Poetry of
Adrienne Rich and Sharon Olds
Chair: Jessica Dyson, University of Stirling
Body Politics: Representations of the Female Body by Contemporary Women Poets
The Embodied Word: Adrienne Rich's Politics and Poetics
Yvonne Murphy, Empire State College, USA.
Victoria F. Harris, Illinois State University, USA.
Session J2 Title: Migrating Subjects (2)
Aaron Abbarno, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Stéphane Robolin, Rutgers University, USA.
Andreia Sarabando, University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Session J3 Title: Creation and Crisis
Yves-Marie Bouillon,
Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France.
Ann K. Hoff,
Room: D1 Chair: John Drakakis, University of Stirling
Transplantation Literature: 'Imagining' Pan-African Nationalism in Italy
Keorapetse Kgositsile in the African Diaspora
‘Elsewhere’ in the Poetry of John Mateer
Room: C23
Poetry and Mass Murder
Chair: Sergi Mainer, University of Stirling
'Over the top': Millay's Anti-fascist Poetry and the Demise of her Career
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Rich Murphy, Emmanuel College, USA.
Session J4 Title: Public and Private Myths
Marlene K. Sokolon, Concordia University, Canada.
Kate Faber Oestreich, The Ohio State University, USA.
Rajbir, RKSD College, Kaithal, India.
Session J5 Title: Experimental Poetics (2)
Kerry Doyle, York University, Canada.
Alan Soldofsky, San Jose State University, USA.
Dorothy Alexander, University of Glasgow, UK.
2.30 – 3.45 Paper Sessions K1 – K5
McLuhan’s Warning, Frye’s Strategy, Emerson’s Dream
Room: A7 Chair: Robin Sowerby, University of Stirling
The Iliad : A Song of Protest
The Sexual Politics of John Keats's 'The Eve of St Agnes'
Interplay of Patriarchy and Symbolism: A Reading of Ted Hughes' Gaudete
Room: D3 Chair: Nick Selby, University of Glasgow
Poetry and the Politics of Naming: The Avant-garde Lyric Divide
'Just when I thought I couldn't stand it': Embedded political vision in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
Out of the Cage: the Use of Experimental Poetics to Tell a Different Story

Session K1 Title: Spectres of War
Jan Mieszkowski, Reed College, USA.
Jacques Coulardeau, Université Paris-Dauphine, France.
Jason Wiens, University of Calgary, Canada.
Room: C23
Poetic Spectacles of War
Poetry's Commitment Against War
Chair: John Drakakis, University of Stirling
Poetry and Political Dissent after September 11, 2001
Session K2 Title: Powerful Women Room: D1 Chair: Christine Wiesenthal, University of Alberta
Melanie Waters, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 'I'm always the victim … but no longer!' Politics, Power and (Post)Feminism in the Poetic Praxis of Anne Sexton
Joanna Gill, Bath Spa University, UK. Remote from History? Anne Sexton and Politics
Andrea W. Leavey, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Words as Weapons: The Power of Eroticism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich,
Marilyn Hacker, and Susan Mitchell
Session K3
Joe Gouveia, Cape Cod Community College, USA.
Ciaran Wrenn, University of Stirling, UK.
Rachel Plasch, Northeastern University, USA.
Session K4
Title: Music and Protest
Title: Political Forms
Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, USA.
David Ten Eyck, Université de Nancy 2, France.
Tommi Kotonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
Room: C1 Chair: Bent Soerensen, Aalborg University
The American Protest Song: From Whitman to a New Millenium
'Look away, you rolling river': Re-interpreting the Protest Song
The Rock Concert and Track-two Diplomacy: A Case Study of U2
Room: A7
Aestheticism and Politics
Chair: Nick Selby, University of Glasgow
Poetry and Fascism: the Political Subtext of Ezra Pound's John Adams and Pisan Cantos
Poetics and Politics of Open-form in Charles Olson's Maximus Poems
Session K5 Title: Irish Poetry: Nationalism and Conscience
Maud Hilaire Schenker,
Room: D3 Chair: Alasdair Macrae, University of Stirling
University Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. Possible Interactions between Politic and Poetry in Yeats' Work
Catriona Clutterbuck, University College Dublin, Ireland. Religious Politics and the Idea of Good Faith in Irish Poetry of the 1930s and 1990s: the Work of Austin
Clarke and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
'Their embassies were everywhere': Amnesty International and Seamus Heaney's Ambassadors of Conscience Brenda Carr Vellino, Carleton University, Canada.
3.45 – 5.00 Poetry Sessions L1 – L5
Session L1 Room: C1 Chair: Ann Fisher-Wirth
Christopher Doda (Canada)
Evie Shockley (USA)

Rishma Dunlop (Canada)
Session L2 Room: C23
Louis Cabri (Canada)
Priscila Uppal (Canada)
Zoe Skoulding (UK)
Session L3 Room: D3
Julia Lisella (USA)
Smita Agarwal (India)
Mary Lynn Broe (USA)
Session L4 Room: A7
Jordana Ashman Long (USA)
Rachel Tzvia Back (Israel)
Zoe Brigley (UK)
Session L5 Room: D1
Chair: Sandra Simmonds
Chair: Joe Gouveia
Chair: Rose Lucas
Chair: Alan Soldofsky
John McAuliffe (Ireland)
Sue Walker (USA)
Sunday 16 th July
09.00 – 10.15 Paper Sessions M1 – M5
Session M1 Title: The Politics of the Poetry Anthology
Abbie Garrington, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Ann Vickery, Monash University, Australia.
Jason Guriel, York University, Canada.
Room: D3 Chair: Marilyn Rose, Brock University
The Rhymes They Are A-changin': Two Attempts to Anthologise Socialist Verse
The Problem of Being Root-bound: Analysing the Publication and Aftermath of Australia's First Anthology of
Women's Poetry
The News from Poems: Partisan Politics in Poetry (Chicago)
Session M2 Title: South African Poetry (2) Room: D1 Chair: Andreia Sarabando, University of Aveiro
Andrew Foley, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Poetry and Liberty: South African Poetry against Apartheid in Retrospect
Susan Spearey, Brock University, Canada. “Living with a disappointment/ still not without cure:” HIV/AIDS, Denialism and the “post”-Apartheid Body
Politic in the Poetry of Jeremy Cronin
Kontein Trinya, Rivers State College of Education, Nigeria. Musical Paradigms for Social Conflicts in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus

Session M3 Title: Activisms
Ann Volin, The University of Kansas, USA.
Evie Shockley, Rutgers University, USA.
Camelia Elias, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Session M4 Title: Irish Poetry: Relics and Artefacts
John McAuliffe, University of Manchester, UK.
Room: C23 Chair: Alasdair Macrae, University of Stirling
Curating the Future: Yeats and the Politics of Museums
Jordana Ashman Long, Independent Scholar, USA. Saints Preserved: Mysticism, Myth and History in Seamus Heaney's Bog Poems
Angela Teatino, University of Bari, Italy. Yin twa maghogani gazpaighp boke! The awful gub began to roar and bawl, for gibberish was all he ever spoke': Translating Classics for Ireland
Session M5 Title: Victorian Women
Gemma Palmer, De Montfort University, UK.
Room: A7
The Curious Case of Mary Furley
Chair: Fabienne Moine, University of Paris Nanterre
'Song-birds left voiceless': Augusta Webster's Poetics of the 'Redundant Women' and Suffrage Debates.
Annabel Rutherford, York University, Canada.
11.45-1.00 Paper Sessions N1 – N5
Session N1 Title: Problematic Readings
Andy Weaver, University of Alberta, Canada.
Nick Selby, University of Glasgow, UK.
Bent Sørensen, University of Aalborg, Denmark.
John R. Woznicki, Georgian Court University, USA.
Louis Cabri, University of Windsor, Canada.
Session N2 Title: From Songwriting to Blogging
Martin Butler, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Room: C1
The Cutting Edge: Poetry and the Development of Three Civil Rights Leaders
Language, Politics, Poetry, and Race: Reading Renee Gladman's The Activist.
Dogs and Daggers: The Aesthetics of Political Community in Lyn Emanuel's Prose Poems
Room: D1
To Speak a Silence: John Cage's 'Writing for the Second Time through
Act of Political Anarchy
Too Close for Comfort: Lyric and the Politics of Close-reading in John Wilkinson
O’Hara’s Mayakovsky
Room: C1
Chair: Marilyn Michaud, University of Stirling
Chair: Dorothy Alexander, University of Glasgow
Finnegan's Wake'
Chair: Suzanne Gilbert, University of Stirling
as an
(De-)Constructing the 'Sunkist' State: Memories of California as Political Subversion in Woody Guthrie's
Dust Bowl Songs
Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell's Post-AIDS lyrics: Canadian Cultural Critiques?
Baraka, Blogging, and 'blowing it up': Death of the Poet and Birth of the Front Man in Contemporary Political
Poetry and Discourse
Session N3 Title: Committed Poets
David Miller, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy.
Christine Wiesenthal, University of Alberta, Canada.
Sheree Mack, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK.
Room: D3 Chair: Marilyn Rose, Brock University
'Your slighted weakness': Irony, Commitment and Estrangement in the Later Lyrics of Thomas Hardy
The Craft of Memory: Cultural Politics in the Wake of Pat Lowther's Death
'Speaking in Tongues': Black British Women Writers

Session N4 Title: The State of the Union (2): Civil Rights
Vivian M. May, Syracuse University, USA.
Room: C23 Chair: Sheryl Meyering, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Maids Mild and Dark villains, Sweet Magnolias and Seeping Blood: Gwendolyn Brooks' Poetic Response to
Rachel Carroll, University of Teesside, UK. the lynching of Emmett Till
The Violent Space: Poetry, Black Power and African American Masculinity in the 'Prison Poetry' of Etheridge Knight
Session N5 Title: Polyglot Subjects
John Sears, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
Room: A7 Chair: Stephen Penn, University of Stirling
‘Learning how to speak’: Poetry and Politics in George Szirtes' Bridge Passages .
Sara H. D'Orazio, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Beyond the Boundaries of a Nation: Political Implications of Multilingual Intertextuality in Geoffrey Hill’s
The Orchards of Syon .
'Dalawa ang bibig': Reading the Bilingual poem Lucy Van, University of Melbourne, Australia.
2.15 – 3.30 Paper Sessions O1 – O4
Session O1 Title: A Coldwar Context
James Womack, Wadham College, Oxford, UK.
Helen Goethals, University of Lyon 2, France.
Session O2 Title: Poetry of Witness
Lorin Schwarz, York University, Canada.
Maria Stoianova, Lancaster University, UK
Mark Yakich, Central Michigan University, USA.
Session O3
Susan Lewis,
Title: Political Wits
Centre for Manx Studies, University of Liverpool, UK.
Cécile Marshall, University of Bordeaux, France.
Brian Abel Ragen,
Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA
Session O4 Title: Playing with Genre
Rebecca Gordon, University of Aberdeen, UK.
Patricia Tabarés Pérez, University of Valladolid, Spain.
Room: C23 Chair: Franca Bellarsi, Université Libre de Bruxelles
‘Jasieńek’ to ‘Johnny’: W.H. Auden as Translator of Mickiewicz
Poetry in a Cold Climate: A Political Reading of E.J. Pratt's
Room: D1
Towards the Last Spike
We Were Such a Good Idea: Travel in Israel and the Poetry of Yehuda Amichai
Why the Poem?: Singularity Bearing Witness to ‘being-in-the-world’ Poetically
Beyond the Poetry of Witness
Room: C1 Chair: Cedric Barfoot, Leiden University
(1952)
'To deter, if not to reform': The Continuing Relationship between Poetry and Politics in the Isle of Man
Tony Harrison: Political Poet or Ironical Aesthete?
'As Wulfstan said on another occasion': The Political Poems of Richard Wilbur
Room: D3
(Re)Generation Poet
Chair: Lyn Barzilai, Oranim College, Haifa
Chair: Suzanne Gilbert, University of Stirling
Communist Fairy Tales: Manipulation of Genre Fiction in the Poetic Works of W.H. Auden in the 1930s
Carol Ann Duffy's Transgression of the Tradition: The Dramatic Monologue's (Sub)Version of a New

3.30 – 4.30 Poetry Sessions P1 – P4
Session P1 Room: C1
Jeff Derksen (Canada)
Chair: Evie Shockley
Jules Boykoff (USA)
Chair: Louis Cabri Session P2 Room: C23
Cori Gabbard (USA)
Lyn Barzilai (Israel)
Session P3 Room: D1
Erin E. Smith (USA)
Yvonne C. Murphy (USA)
Chair: Mary Lynn Broe
Session P4 Room: D3
Susan Azar Porterfield (USA)
Dorothy Alexander (UK)
Chair: Priscila Uppal