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