| Time | Details |
|---|---|
| 10.30- 11.00: | Registration |
| 11.00 -12.15: | Panel 1: Promoting an inclusive poetics Chair: Wim Van Mierlo |
| 12.15 -13.00: | Lunch (please arrange your own lunch) |
| 13.00 -14.15: | Panel 2: Voices of protest: women’s poetry across the generations Chair: Jane Dowson |
| 14.15 -15.30: | Panel 3: Reviewing contemporary poetry Chair: Aviva Dautch |
| 15.30 -15.45: | Refreshments |
| 15.45-17.00: | Panel 4: The roles of the reader/the roles of the poet Chair: Niall Munro Martin Kratz (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Poem Titles and the Title of Poet: Contemporary Titling Practices in the Poetry of Leontia Flynn and Michael Symmons Roberts’ Matt Bryden (Independent scholar),’Glyn Maxwell – Working Off Radar’ Bridget Vincent (University of Melbourne), ‘The Poet’s List: Alice Oswald as Anthologist’ |
| 18.00 -19.00: | John Coffin Memorial Event: a cross-generation reading and discussion by New/Next/Next Generation 2014 Poets (open to the public as well as delegates) Ian Duhig (New Generation, 1994) You can register for this Reading on the Lectures and Readings page. |
New Generation to Next Generation 2014: Three Decades of British and Irish Poetry
Principal Investigator(s): Dr Niall Munro
Contact: niall.munro@brookes.ac.uk
Project start: March 2015
Project finish: March 2015
About us
This two-day conference, organized by the Institute of English Studies and Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre in collaboration with the Poetry Book Society, looks back at twenty years of New and Next Generation Poets. Its aim is to explore the legacy and impact of the scheme, but also use it as a focus to think more generally about contemporary poetry.
With panels discussing a wide range of poets, talks about the publishing and reviewing of contemporary poetry, and a poetry reading by Nick Drake and Helen Mort, this event offers a chance to consider the state and direction of British and Irish poetry now. The keynote address will be by Dr David Wheatley (University of Aberdeen), author of Contemporary British Poetry, and also includes a free public event on Friday evening with a reading and discussion by a 'cross-generational' panel of poets: Ian Duhig, Patience Agbabi, and Hannah Lowe.
