Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
September 5th – 7th 2011
Keynote speakers: Professor Aurora Egido (Universidad de Zaragoza); Professor Trevor J. Dadson (Queen Mary, University of London)
Papers are invited on the subject of Poetry in Motion.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Critical (re)directions
Centre/periphery movement
Correspondence and contradiction
Dynamic temporal/spatial relations
Image/text movement
Interrelationship of history and memory
Mobile metaphors
Movement and metamorphosis
Moving poetic subject(s)
Paradigm shifts in relation to poetic genres
Perspective and poetic process
Poetic movements/currents
Repetition(s)/Returns/Reinventions
Shifting temporal/spatial perspectives
Please send (as word attachment):
(a) a 250-word abstract for a twenty minute paper or
(b) a 500-word proposal for a pre-formed panel, round table, or specific workshop idea to i.torres@qub.ac.uk no later than March 4th 2011.
Please also include with your abstract: name and affiliation; email address; A/V requirements if any.
Participants will be notified about the acceptance of papers by the end of April 2011. The deadline for conference registration is FRIDAY MAY 27th, 2011.
Isabel Torres, Conference Organizer.
