Charles Bernstein
Poetry and Revolution at Birbeck
The current crisis makes it possible to think what couldn’t be thought before, which has always been the task of poetry.
With its echoes of previous crises of modern society, it places on the agenda a reappraisal of revolutionary art from the point of view of the necessities of the present.
Keynote Speakers
Joan Retallack, poet, essayist, activist, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College, New York.
Jack Hirschman, poet, translator, essayist, activist, Poet Laureate of S. Francisco 2006, member of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.
Mark Nowak, poet, activist, Director of Graduate Writing Programme at Manhattanville College, NY.
Poetry Readings
Friday Night (25 May 2012), 7.30pm
Tom Leonard, Jack Hirschman, Ziba Karbassi, Marianne Morris, Sean Bonney, Harry Gilonis.
At X-ing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount pleasant WC1
This reading is sponsored by Birkbeck College Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in association with the XING the Line reading series, as part of the Poetry and Revolution International Conference
Door charge: £5 waged and £3 unwaged. All proceeds to the poets.
Numbers are limited: first come first served.
Saturday Night (26 May 2012), 7:00-10:30pm
7:00-8:00pm: VLAK: Launch of Special Issue of VLAK on Occupations
8:00-10:30pm: Joan Retallack, Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak.
At The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
This reading is sponsored by Birkbeck College Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in association with Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre, as part of the Poetry and Revolution International Conference
Door charge: £6 waged and £4 unwaged. All proceeds to the poets.Numbers are limited: first come first served.
Papers: Approximately 45 papers on a wide range of issues over the Saturday and Sunday. Speakers from Portugal, Greece, the USA, Ireland, & the UKLiaisons and co-operation with Occupied and Free Spaces
Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Sq., WC1.
Registration: No registration required. All welcome.
Contact: Stephen Mooney, estaphin@gmail.com
Supported by the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities, and co-sponsored by the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton
See http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/events/Poetry_and_Revolution for further updates
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Full Conference Schedule below:
Poetry and RevolutionConference Schedule
Friday 25 May 2012
19.30-23:00 Conference Reading
Tom Leonard, Jack Hirschman, Ziba Karbassi, Marianne Morris, Sean Bonney, Harry Gilonis
At Xing the Line, The Apple Tree, 45 Mount Pleasant WC1
This reading is sponsored by Birkbeck College Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in association with the XING the Line reading series, as part of the Poetry and Revolution International Conference.
Door charge: £5 waged and £3 unwaged. All proceeds to the poets.
Numbers are limited: first come first served.
Saturday 26 May 2012
10.00-11.30 9 papers in 3 parallel sessions
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-13.00 Jack Hirschman Keynote talk
13.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15:30 9 papers in 3 parallel sessions
15:30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-17.00 Joan Retallack keynote talk
17:00-17:30 General discussion
19:00-22:30 Conference Reading
(19:00-20:00) VLAK: Launch of Special Issue of VLAK on Occupations
(20:00-22:30) Joan Retallack, Maggie O’Sullivan, Abdullah al-Udhari, Keston Sutherland, Ulli Freer, Mark Nowak
At The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
This reading is sponsored by Birkbeck College Contemporary Poetics Research Centre in association with Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre, as part of the Poetry and Revolution International Conference
Door charge: £6 waged and £4 unwaged. All proceeds to the poets.
Numbers are limited: first come first served.
Sunday 27 May 2012
10.00-11.30 8 papers in 3 parallel sessions
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 9 papers in 3 parallel sessions
13.30-14.30 Lunch break
14:30-16.00 11 papers in 4 parallel sessions
16:00-16.30 Tea break
16:30-17:30 Mark Nowak keynote with immigrant workers from UNITE
17:30-18:00 General discussion
18:00-19:00 Wine & chat
All conference rooms are in the Malet Street main building, Birkbeck College, University of London, Bloomsbury , London WC1E 7HX (entrance on Torrington Sqr)
Saturday 26 May 2012 - Papers
10:00-11:30
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Alex Latter
Peter Jaeger
John Cage, Anarchy, and Anarchy
Abigail De Kosnik
“We are the 99 Percent” and “GS [Goldman Sachs] Elevator Gossip”: Tumblr and Twitter as Archives of Testimonial Poetry
Fabian Macpherson
William Morris’s Chants for Socialists and the Problem of Utopia
Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Steve Willey
John Mateer
The Poem “Invictus” and the Negotiated Revolution
Mandy Bloomfield
Revolution in spatial poetics
George Paizis
‘Marcel Martinet is the Poet of the Revolution’
Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Robert Hampson
Mary Coghill
Russian Formalism and Revolution: Elena Guro (1877-1913) Russian Formalist writer and contemporary of Roman Jakobson (pseudonym: Aljagrov)
William Allegrezza
Charles Bernstein’s Disruptive Praxis
Sean Bonney
The Magic Words Are . . . . . Riot as Prosody
14:00- 15:30
Panel A (Room 355) Chair: Harry Gilonis
Amy De’Ath
‘Not not this. What, this then?’ : Kevin Davies and the Merely Interesting
Michael Zand
Reclaiming the House of Leo. Lion as a poetic response to the impact of the Islamic Revolution on the treatment of the Iranian “lion and sun” motif.
Becky Cremin
to initiate a poetics of occupation. occupy as poetics : poetics as occupy
Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Aodan McCardle
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Cries, crises. Greek Passions
Piotr Gwiazda
Ether: Conformity and Resistance in Contemporary US Poetry
Allen Fisher
Fascism and the State
Panel C (Room 353) Chair: Sean Bonney
Danny Hayward
Revolutionary Poetry and Reactionary Thinking
Karen Veitch
“A means o’ world locomotion”: Hugh MacDiarmid and the Poetics of Revolution
Amy Evans
“Revolution or Death”: Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan and the problem of the English gentlewoman as revolutionary
Sunday 27 May 2012 - Papers
10:00-11:30
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Peter Jaeger
Julie Carr
The Eros of Utopia: William Morris, Lisa Robertson
cris cheek
murmuration of poeisis : praxis between control and emergence
Harry Gilonis
Ch'iu Chin (1875-1907) and Chinese, revolutionary, poetics
Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Steve Willey
Jeffrey C. Robinson
A Radical Romantic Poetry: Poems for the Millennium, Three
Jennifer Cooke
“Public Disorder” and Poetry, 2010-2011
Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Sean Bonney
Sophie Robinson
‘the grave of love’: queer desire and anti-sociality in the poetry of Frank O’Hara
Richenda Power
Post-'68 Poetry and Self: voices from a commune
David Vichnar
TRANSITION IN LANGUAGE: FROM TRANSITION TO L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
12:00-13:30
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Will Montgomery
David Buuck
WE ARE ALL SOUND: POETICS & PUBLIC SPACE IN THE OCCUPY OAKLAND MOVEMENT
Stephen Mooney
Insuperable Underlanguage: Epochal Change and Will Rowe’s Nation
Rachel Galvin
“Incantation and Recantation in the English and French Revolutionary Ode”
Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Luis Trindade
Richard Owens
SHATTERED SPACE AND LYRIC PRACTICE
Steven Fowler
Dada: the ethical exception.
David Kessel
Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Jeff Hilson
Keston Sutherland
Revolution and Really Being Alive
Jacob Edmond
Revolution’s Echo: Poetry after 1989
Josh Robinson
Adorno, Lyric, and the Poetics of the Wrong State of Things
2:30-4:00
Panel A (Room 353) Chair: Harry Gilonis
Paul Sutton
Poetry and Revolution
Wayne Clements
The return of what has been forgotten
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Revolution and Poetry (a reply to Drew Milne)
Panel B (Room 354) Chair: Luis Trindade
Maria Damon
Micropoetries as Po(e)tential Kindling for Greater Revolution
Robin Purves
Deconstruction Fucked My Beatrice
Albert Pellicer on Cecilia Vicuna
SABORAMI by Cecilia Vicuña, then & now
Panel C (Room 355) Chair: Aodan McCardle
Kaia Sand
Landscapes of Dissent: seven notes on the Occupy Movements.
William Rowe
Bill Griffiths: the Negative and the Multiple
Zoë Skoulding
Translation and irruptive citizenship in the poetry of Erín Moure
Panel D (Room G15)
Andy Croft (Smokestack Books)
Je suis tous les autres : common music and radical poetry
Association of Musical Marxists
“Why Destroy”
orignally posted CFP and poster 2012-03-19; this updated replaces that post.
