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Conference: Innovation in Irish Poetry
Tuesday 22 March, 2011 tagged Calls for Work, International Events Tuesday 12th July 2011
Conference: Innovation in Irish Poetry
This conference investigates issues surrounding innovation in Irish poetry. Its aim is not only to re-examine the influence that Irish writers have had on 20th Century literature, but also to explore the current status of Irish innovative poetics in the 21st Century.
Some possible areas of interest for papers might include:
- Cadence in Irish poetry
- The influence of international poetics on Irish poetry
- The influence of Irish modernism on British and American writers
- Irish poetry and the historical avant-garde
- Constructions of Irish Modernism
- Irish small presses
- National identity
- Religion
- Post colonialism
- Emigration
- Irish poetry’s engagement with critical theory
- The Irish poetic canon
Papers should be approximately 20 minutes in length. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length and should be emailed to irishpoetryconference@gmail.com no later than Monday 28th March.
University College Cork, Ireland
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