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Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945

 An interdisciplinary two-day and two-venue conference

The conference will be the starting point of an international collaborative network working on recent and emerging poetic practice. The July event will include papers by UK-based and international scholars of poetry and poetic practice and will aim at defining ‘poetic’ in the contemporary context, focusing on new trends in poetic writing and the interrelation of poetry and other genres and art forms.

It will also bring together scholars and practitioners; the conference itself will include poetry readings and performances, and it is anticipated that the network will allow poets, translators, practitioners of other arts and researchers to collaborate in future on a range of scholarly projects and activities to disseminate innovations in poetic practice.

The first day will take place at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (IGRS), London, on Friday 16 July 2010.

The second day will take place at Magdalene College, Cambridge, on Saturday 17 July 2010.

The conference organisers are:

• Emma Wagstaff, University of Birmingham, e.r.wagstaff@bham.ac.uk
• Nina Parish, University of Bath, np222@bath.ac.uk
• Michael G. Kelly, University of Limerick, michael.g.kelly@ul.ie
• Hugo Azérad, University of Cambridge, ha205@cam.ac.uk
• Margaret Rigaud-Drayton, University of Cambridge, mr340@cam.ac.uk

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