Joan Retallack - Poetry and the Mirror of Nature

Thursday 15th October, 5pm

Joan Retallack will give an lecture and reading entitled: 'Poetry and the Mirror of Nature'

Little Hall, Sigdwick Site, University of Cambridge

Admission is free.

There will also be a two-day symposium of talks to accompany her visit:

Thursday 15th October, 2 - 4pm
The Poetry of Joan Retallack 

• Dr. Ian Davidson (Bangor): 'Experimental poetry and memory in the work of Joan Retallack'
• Dr. Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London): Noise on: 'The Experimental Feminine'
• Dr. Allen Fisher (Manchester Metropolitan): 'Aesthetic Swerve'

Friday 16th October, 10am - 5.30pm
Symposium on contemporary poetry and poetics: 

• Dr. Drew Milne, welcome and introductory remarks
• Prof.Will Rowe (Birkbeck): 'The world occasion: syntax in Witt and Stein'
• Dr. Zoe Skoulding (Bangor): 'Dislocution and the Experimental Feminine'
• Alec Finlay: will present and discuss his work as a poet and artist
• John Hall (Dartington) 'Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing'
• Larry Lynch (Dartington) will present and discuss their work
• Dr. Drew Milne (Cambridge University): 'Reading Procedures and Contemporary Poetics'
• Poetry readings by Ian Patterson (Cambridge University), Zoe Skoulding (Bangor), and Ian Davidson (Bangor).