CfP
Outside-in
/ Inside-out
A Symposium / Poetry Festival
on Outside and Subterranean PoetryWomen’s Library: 5-7 October 2016
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Inspired by the recently published
fifth volume of Poems for the Millennium, Barbaric Vast & Wild: A Gathering of Outside
& Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, this symposium
will open up views to poetry past, present, and potentially future with the
question: Is there something in poetry ‘outside’ (economically, racially,
nationally, formally, etc.) and ‘subterranean’ (suppressed by political and
poetic hegemonies) that may lie at the heart of the most vital poetic practice?
In their new groundbreaking gathering, Jerome Rothenberg and John
Bloomberg-Rissman have assembled a wide range of poems and related language
works, in which outside/outsider and subterranean/subversive positions
challenge the boundaries of poetry. Poetic form and substance may be rethought
from these new perspectives as fundamental and generative; as the editors
write: ‘conditions of outsideness may create … a field for the invention of new
or special forms and modes of language.’
Outside-in / Inside-out will address
the disparate realms of poetry created by, or emerging from, the condition of
being outside dominant and official positions. Like Barbaric Vast & Wild, we encourage
presentations on moments in the history of outside/subterranean poetry; yet
ultimately we will pitch these findings towards contemporary poetry practices.
For us, the terms ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ must include ideas not only discussed among successful
poets and academics solely within a university setting; therefore the symposium
will be held in venues with varying access to public audiences and
participants, including the University of Glasgow, the Glasgow Centre for
Contemporary Arts (CCA), and the Glasgow Women’s Library. In our
symposium, ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ also imply modes of formal presentation
that may subvert the typical conference format. If the participant
wishes, he or she may replace or modify so-called critical/scholarly work with
so-called ‘creative’ or performance work, and vice versa. In order to generate
many approaches to the framework of outsideness, the three-day symposium will
include a mix of panel presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops, and
(two evenings at the CCA) readings and performances.
We are fortunate to be able to
supplement these events with three exhibitions:
1) the history of Concrete poetry as
an outside art through the archives of Bob Cobbing and Hansjörg Mayer 2)
the Concrete poetry of two Scottish poets, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Edwin
Morgan and 3) ‘The Homeless Library’, a poetry and art collaboration by
homeless people in Manchester.
An exciting line-up of poets,
researchers, and curators have already confirmed attendance, including among
others Charles Bernstein, Sean Bonney, Andrea Brady, Julie Carr, Phillip
Davenport, Gerrie Fellows, Bronac Ferran, Alec Finlay, Sara Guyer, Pierre
Joris, Tom Leonard, Gerry Loose, Aonghas MacNeacail, Peter Manson, Maggie
O’Sullivan, Sandeep Parmar, Holly Pester, Nicole Peyrafitte, and Jerome
Rothenberg.
The conference organisers
invite proposals for ten to twenty-minute creative and/or scholarly papers and
performances. Possible topics for presentations include, but are not limited
to:
Problems of defining ‘outside’ in poetry and poetics:
What is ‘outside’? What
is ‘inside’? Can one become the
other? How do ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ differ from each
other? Are ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ useful terms for
exploring poetics? What are the values and risks involved in recuperating
‘outside’ poetry?
other? How do ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ differ from each
other? Are ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ useful terms for
exploring poetics? What are the values and risks involved in recuperating
‘outside’ poetry?
Sociological and historical analyses of styles and movements of
‘outside’ poetry, or poetry produced from cultural, political and economic
marginalization.
Historical instances of
‘outside’ poetry and poetics:
A tradition of the
outside or subterranean poets: e.g. William Langland, William Blake, John Clare:
- 18-19th Century
women’s poetry
- Pre-20th Century
working class poetry
- The relationship of ‘outside’ or ‘subterranean’ poetry to movements
such as Romanticism and Modernism
- Barbaric Vast & Wild and the politics of anthologies
The relationship between
‘outside’ poetry and formal experiment and/or experimental art, e.g. Concrete
poetry, Text Art, New Media poetries.
The role of archives and
distribution in the formation of ‘outside’ and ‘subterranean’ poetry.
Formally and politically
subversive gestures of ‘outside’ poetry and poetics: e.g. ‘nomad’ poetics.
Poetry which may be
considered ‘outside’ or ‘subterranean’ such as:
–
Art brut
– Women’s
work
– Popular
and newspaper poetry
– Works
responding to conditions of deliberate, self-imposed exile
– Works
created out of/responding to outsider-ness due to physical and mental
circumstances, disability, race, sexuality, homelessness, economics, class,
gender, political stance, etc.
– Works
which dispense with genre boundaries or operate meaningfully across them
– Works in
dialects and ‘nation languages’
– Ancient
prophetic writing
– Song
forms such as ballads, rap, pop
Please send an abstract of up
to 300 words by 15th April
2016 to: outside poetry [at] gmail [dot] com. We will endeavour to respond
by 31st May 2016.
The organisers of Outside-in /
Inside-out are:
Dr Colin Herd,
Dr Lila Matsumoto, University of Edinburgh
nick-e melville,
Professor Jeffrey Robinson, University of Glasgow
Dr Calum Rodger,
Dr Nuala Watt, University of Glasgow
https://outsidepoetryfestival.wordpress.com
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