'Poetry in the Making': 8th International Ted Hughes Conference
This is an open call for papers for the 8th International Ted Hughes Conference. This conference seeks to explore new ways of reading Hughes’s work as well as delving deeper into rich established veins of scholarly research. The conference welcomes abstracts on any Hughes topic. Please send an abstract of 300 words with a short bio to Carrie Smith at Hughesconference@cardiff.ac.uk by March 31st 2018.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
The literary afterlives of Hughes
Birthday Letters 20 years on
Dialogues with Hughes: literary friendships
Hughes and folklore
Hughes and medievalism
Hughes’s bestiary
Hughes’s prose
Hughes and tradition
Hughes and farming
Hughes and place
Hughes’s manuscripts
Hughes and fishing
Hughes and Cambridge
Hughes and the Romantics
Hughes and translation
Hughes and visual culture
Hughes and Plath
Hughes and the environment
Hughes’s laureateship