Crossing the Minch and other Odysseys

Crossing the Minch and other Odysseys

This is a past event

A symposium of the AHRC funded Irish-Scottish Poetry Project, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Queen’s University Belfast, in association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen.

 

Humanity Manse

19 College Bounds, University of Aberdeen

9th May 2008

 

 

Fri 9th May     Symposium

                        Seminar Room, Humanity Manse

 

9.15                 Welcome

 

9.30-10.30       Edna Longley ‘Phoenixes or Dead Crow? Some Comparisons between Irish and Scottish Poetry Magazines’

Respondent: Tom Hubbard

 

10.30-11.00     Coffee Break

 

11.00-12.00     John Kerrigan ‘Louis MacNeice among the Islands’

 

12.00-1.15       Poets’ Panel

                        Peter McDonald

                        Andrew McNeillie

                       

1.15-2.15         Buffet Lunch

 

2.15-3.15         Robert Crawford ‘The Classics in Modern Scottish and Irish Poetry’

 

3.15-3.45         Coffee Break

 

3.45-5.00         Poets’ Panel

                        Alan Gillis

                        Sinead Morrissey

 

7.30 pm           Poetry Reading, in association with the WORD festival

Robert Crawford, Michael Longley and Sinead Morrissey

King’s College Centre, University of Aberdeen

Venue
University of Aberdeen