British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference
at The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry,
Queen’s University Belfast
15-17 September 2010
CONFERENCE TITLE:
BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY 1960-2010
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME AVAILABLE HERE
ABSTRACTS OF CONFERENCE PAPERS
Includes:
Keynote speakers:
Christopher Ricks: "The strength of Hill's unrelenting, unreconciling mind.",
William Logan: "Lowell's Skunk: Heaney's Skunk",
Angela Leighton: "Justifying Time in Contemporary Poetry"
Panel of poet-publishers:
Michael Schmidt, Don Paterson, Peter Fallon
Reading by Belfast Poets:
Michael Longley, Ciaran Carson, Medbh McGuckian, Frank Ormsby, Sinéad Morrissey, Leontia Flynn
