2008 English News and Events Archive
Poetry and the Trace
Poetic language speaks of the elusivity, the impossible seductions of the trace trace of memory, desire, the dreams of an impossible language which encompasses, of a presence which underpins the language of poetry, with its rhythms of pulse and silence, the reflective pause of metaphor and the capacity for representation, is inextricably related to the language of memory and desire both subjective and social. This conference broadly investigates the relationship between poetry, trace and memory and whether collective and private pasts and subjectivities can find articulation through the flexible forms of poetic language.
Conference in July 2008. Submission of papers by 1st February 2008. For more information, click here.