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Keynote speaker announced

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Authenticity and the Lyric Voice

Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre
Oxford Brookes University
May 12-13, 2007

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Al Alvarez

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Robert Hampson; Vicki Bertram; Nick Selby; Jahan Ramazani

POETRY READING: Helen Farish

CALL FOR PAPERS

'Authenticity and the Lyric Voice' is a two-day colloquium taking place at
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, over the weekend of May 12-13, 2007.

The colloquium is hosted by the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre and is open
to anyone with an interest in modern and contemporary poetry, regardless
of whether or not they have any academic affiliation. Graduate students
are also welcome to submit proposals.

We welcome papers which engage with any aspect of this topic, but the
focus should be on twentieth- and/or twenty-first-century poetry.

Abstracts of 200 words, for 20 minute papers, should be sent as an
attachment to rbuxton_at_brookes.ac.uk or by post to

Dr Rachel Buxton
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 0BP
England

Suggestions for panel topics are also welcome.

Closing date for proposals is March 2, 2007.

Please contact Rachel Buxton on rbuxton_at_brookes.ac.uk for further
information, or visit the colloquium webpage:
http://ah.brookes.ac.uk/poetry/colloquium

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Dr Rachel Buxton
Director of the Poetry Centre
English Studies Department
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford OX3 0BP

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