Colloquium on the work of Bill Griffiths - Jan 27th 2012

Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.



January 27th 2012

1030 – 10.45 Arrivals and coffee




10.45 - 11.00 Welcome and introductions




11.00 - 11.45 Allen Fisher: ‘The idea of Sequence.’


Jeff Hilson: 'Binaries - Bill Griffiths's Not-Sonnets.’




12.00 - 12.45 Sean Bonney: 'Prison as Prosody'

Peter Barry: 'Three ways of reading a poem by Bill Griffiths’




12.45 - 1.30 Lunch





1.30 - 2.00 Alan Halsey: ‘Abysses & Quick Vicissitudes: On Editing Bill


Griffiths’ Collected Poems.’




2.00 - 2.30 Bill Lancaster: 'Bill Griffiths, the Northern Years'




 2.45 - 3.45 Panel discussion (Mendoza, Juha Virtannen and Luke Roberts)




4.00 - 4.30 Will Rowe: ‘Bill Griffiths's negative system'

Conclusions



5.00 - 6.30 Poetry reading.


Readers include: Peter Barry, Sean Bonney, Clive Fencott,


Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Jeff Hilson, Ann Matthews, Mendoza,


Will Rowe, Rhys Trimble and Juha Virtannen.




The colloquium will take place in CPD1 in Squires Building (opposite the civic centre). See http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/brochure/visit/campus_branch/ncle_cmp/city_campus/ for a map. The CPD1 room is just off the foyer of Squires.




The poetry reading will take place in Northumberland Building LT149.