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>Subject: CFP: Poetry & Politics (UK) (12/15/05; 7/13/06-7/16/06)
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>From: "Poetry Politics {Eng}" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Call for papers: Poetry and Politics. A Conference at the University of
>Stirling, Scotland, 13-16 July 2006.
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>Poets and speakers to include Moniza Alvi, Eavan Boland, David Dabydeen,
>Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Norbrook, Tom Paulin, Deryn Rees-Jones, Jo
>Shapcott, and the Norton keynote speaker, Adrienne Rich.
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>Papers are invited which consider the theme of politics in relation to
>poetry from classical antiquity to the contemporary. The following list
>suggests some possible areas for development, but proposals in any area
>relating to the conference theme of poetry and politics will be
>welcome:
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>The politics of stratifications and hierarchies based on constructions of
>race, class, age, religion, gender or physical / mental ability; notions of
>the public and the private; the figure of the exile; the politics of
>dialect and 'non-standard' English; the protest song; prophets and seers;
>the figure of the committed poet; patriotism and nationalism;
>globalisation and parochialism; the politics of landscape and
>environmentalism; mythopoeia; conservatism and radicalism; the politics
>of tradition; the politics of reading and teaching poetry; the politics
>of  language and the ineffable; the politics of translation; sites of
>protest, such as the coffee house, the tavern or the rock concert; modes
>of protest; popular dissent and politics; scurrilous verse and libel;
>patronage and politics; poetry and religious politics.
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>Abstracts of 200-250 words of papers not lasting longer than twenty
>minutes in delivery should reach the organisers by December 15, 2005. 
>Please see the conference web pages at  www.poetryandpolitics.stir.ac.uk
>(from 21st February) for further details and announcements. We are happy
>to accept enquiries and abstracts via email to
>[log in to unmask] Abstracts may also be posted to Poetry and
>Politics Conference, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, FK9
>4LA.
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>Conference organisers: Glennis Byron, John Drakakis, Andrew Sneddon.

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