Archive
Over the past few years the CPRC has organized, sponsored and collaborated on a range of events:
Susan Howe: A Celebration: 21 June 2008, Room B35, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, 9.25am - 6.30pm.
Co-organised with Catherine Martin. In this, the first conference devoted to her work, we aim to recognise the impact Howe’s writing has had on contemporary poetics, and to provide a focus for new critical approaches to her poetry.
The symposium begins at 9.25am with the keynote lecture by Elizabeth Willis, followed by four panels of papers, and finishing with a drinks reception at 6.30pm. All welcome. Coffee and tea served from 9am.
With papers from Elizabeth Willis, Stephen Collis, Drew Milne, Mandy Bloomfield, Redell Olsen, Tony Lopez, Anna Reckin, Nick Selby, Catherine Martin, Carol Watts, Will Montgomery, Jess Wilkinson, Susan Nurmi-Schomers, & a recording of ‘Thiefth’ by Susan Howe and David Grubbs.
This event is sponsored by the Centre for Poetics and School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, and the University of Sussex.
Symposium with Alice Notley: Saturday May 10th 2008 10.15 - 5.30, Council Room, Birkbeck College.
see http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/events/alicenotleyconstellation for more details, recordings and texts.
Poetry and Public Language: Panel Discussion and Booklaunch December 5th 2007. Panel discussion with Tony Lopez, Cathy Martin, Peter Middleton, John Hall, Will Rowe, on the occasion of the launch of Poetry and Public Language, ed. by Tony Lopez and Anthony Caleshu (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2007).
Bill Griffiths: A Commemoration Saturday 17th November. 2-5 pm
Council Room, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1.
Recordings of Bill's words and music.
Readings and tributes by Allen Fisher, John Griffiths, Jennifer Cobbing, Ken Edwards, Keith Musgrove, John Seed, Geraldine Monk, Alan Halsey, Samantha Paxton, Nicholas Johnson, Gavin Selerie, Paula Claire, Ulli Freer, Clive Bush, Steve Clews, Clive Fencott, Steve Cox, Harry Gilonis, Sean Bonney and Will Rowe.
Music by Bartok, Brahms and Bach.
Displays of Bill's work.
A double audio CD of this event is available from Alan Halsey < alan@nethedge.demon.co.uk>
Performance by JUStin!katKO (Brown University), 29 October 2007.
Reading by Jerome Rothenberg 4 October 2007. Co-sponsored by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
Performance exchange led by Sean Bonney, 14 June 2007.
Lecture by John Cayley: 'Writing on Complex Surfaces' 3 May 2007. On poetry and digital media.
Performance at Wigmore Hall 22 March 2007. Performance of ‘Voiceworks: A Showcase of New Music for Voice'. Texts by Birkbeck, London Consortium and Royal Holloway Students, with music composed by Guildhall School of Music and Drama students, sung and performed by Guildhall Students.
Reading Prynne: talks by Keston Sutherland and John Hall, May 2006.
Psychogeography: talks by Ben Watson and Sean Bonney, May 2005.
Forum on women writers: 15th January 2005, with Redell Olsen, Andrea Brady, Susan Johanknecht, Nicky Marsh, Stephen Mooney, Aodhan McCardle, Piers Hugill, Lucy Sheerman, Elizabeth James, Val Pancucci, Robert Hampson, Brigid McClear, Frances Presley, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Ceridwen Buckmaster, Gillian Wylde, Marianne Morris, Carol Watts.
E-Poetry Festival, 28th September - 1st October 2005, with financial support from the British Academy and LCACE, co-organised with Loss Pequeño Glazier and John Cayley, and in collaboration with Royal Holloway University of London. With contributions by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Talon Memmott, Loss Pequeño Glazier, Phillipe Bootz, Sandy Baldwin, Liro Tolley, Judd Morrissey, John Cayley, Kirsten Lavers, Brigid McLeer, Jim Rosenberg, Joerg Piringer, John Drever, Lawrence Upton, Kustin Katko, John Sparrow, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, and others.
Workshop on working with found materials, led by Redell Olsen, October 2004.
Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Conference: ‘(the) language & the Design of Poetry’, May 7th & 8th, 2004, with financial support from the British Academy. With contributions by Bruce Andrews, Redell Olsen, Jed Rasula, Robert Sheppard, John Cayley, Rob Holloway, Brian Kim Stefans, Ulli Freer, Bill Griffiths, Rod Mengham, Pierre Joris, Peter Middleton, Brian Catling, chris cheek, Iain Sinclair, Lawrence Upton, Gilbert Adair, Aaron Williamson, Nicole Peyrafitte.
‘Hands on Poetics’: Talk on rhythm in poetry, by Nicholas Johnson, 20th November 2003.
Panel on the Contemporary in Poetry, with Robert Potts and William Rowe. May 2003.
Fifth Subvoicive Colloquium, 2001.
Poetry workshop, led by Ken Edwards and subsequently Ulli Freer, 2000 - 2005.
Poetry Readings, Performances and Booklaunches 2000-2008: by Steve McCaffery, Karen McCormack, Maggie O’Sullivan, Bill Griffiths, Ulli Freer, Caroline Bergvall, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Sean Bonney, Geraldine Monk, Joan Retallack, Tom Raworth, Martin Gubbins, Andres Anwandter, Alan Halsey, Lawrence Upton, Robert Hampson, Bill Griffiths, Gavin Selerie, Jerome Rothenberg, JUStin!katKO, Martin Bakero, Christine Wertheim.
Inaugural Talk on ‘Ecstatic form in poetry’, to mark the launch of CPRC, by Jeff Nuttall, May 2000.
