‘Finished and under construction’:
Irish Poetry since 1998

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Schedule

All events will take place in the Old Staff Common Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University unless stated otherwise.

FRIDAY MARCH 1ST

3pm–4pm Registration/ Coffee

4pm–5.30pm Keynote lecture by Professor Colin Graham, Maynooth University

5.30pm–6.30pm Wine reception

6.30pm Q&A/ poetry reading with Dr Miriam Gamble (chaired by Stephen Connolly)

SATURDAY MARCH 2ND

9.30am–11am Panel One: Poetic Inheritances
Dr Kenneth Keating, University College Cork – The Pantoum in Ireland: Poetic Form and Transnationalism
Dr Joe Lines, Queen’s University Belfast – Evocations of the Eighteenth Century in Irish Poetry, 1998–Present
Erin Cunningham, King’s College London – ‘a sonnet and a plate of spaghetti’: Leontia Flynn’s Poetics of the Internet

11am–11.30amCoffee break

11.30am–1pm Panel Two: Liminality/ Borders
India Harris – ‘You are neither here nor there’: Liminality in Seamus Heaney’s The Spirit Level
Emma McKervey – Site Specific Poetry and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
James Patterson – Reclaiming Bandit Country

1pm–2pmLunch

2pm–3.30pm Panel Three: Gender
Dr Kathleen McCoy, SUNY Adirondack – The Fracture that Annotates the Wound: Reading Medbh McGuckian and Leontia Flynn
Dr Zosia Kucsyńska, University College Dublin – From [a]norexia to [Drag] Queen Elizabeth: the body politic in post-1998 Irish poetry
Stiofán Ó Briain, University College Dublin – ‘Aicíd nua-aoiseach an Fhir Eorpaigh’: Toxic Masculinity in Beatha Dhónaill Dhuibh by Séamus Barra Ó Súilleabháin

3.30pm–4pmCoffee break

4pm–5.30pm Roundtable: Poetry Publishing in Ireland
Chaired by Dr Damian Smyth, Head of Drama and Literature, Arts Council Northern Ireland
Dr Kenneth Keating, MEAS (Measuring Equality in the Arts Sector)
Maureen Kennelly, Poetry Ireland
Dr Padraig Regan, The Tangerine Magazine
Manuela Moser, The Lifeboat Press
Eva Griffin, NOT4U Collective

5.30pm–6.30pmWine reception (Canada Room)

6.30pm–7.30pm Poetry reading (Canada Room)
Dr Leontia Flynn
Professor Nick Laird
Dr Padraig Regan

8.45pmConference dinner (Deanes at Queen's)

SUNDAY MARCH 3RD

10.30am–12pm Panel Four: Space and Place
Alexander Jones, Trinity College Dublin – Mystifying the Deep: Richard Murphy’s Last Poems
Milena Williamson, Queen’s University Belfast – Capriccio in (Northern) Irish Poetry

12pm–12.30pm Reading by MA Poetry Students from Queen’s University Belfast

12.30pm–1.30pm Lunch

1.30pm–3pm Concluding roundtable: Poetry in Ireland Today
Dr Miriam Gamble, University of Edinburgh
Professor Nick Laird, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Gail McConnell, Queen’s University Belfast
Dr Stephen Sexton, Queen’s University Belfast

4pm Poetry reading in association with Poetry Ireland (Naughton Gallery)
Susannah Dickey
Michael Naghten Shanks
Jessica Traynor