The panel and presentation details are not yet complete and will be amended until November 2023. The current provisional schedule was updated on 09 November 2023.
You can access the PDF version of the panel schedule here.
The full conference booklet including all abstracts and panellist bios can be downloaded here.
| Day One | Saturday 11 November | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome and Registration | |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Opening Remarks | Conference Organisers & Poetry Off the Page Team |
| 10:20 – 11:20 | Panel 1 Speaking Back to Power: Spoken Word Poetry and/as Protest Chair: Martina Pfeiler | Hanan Issa, “When Language Chimes: Building Bridges with an Ancient Welsh Poetic Metre” Jay Mitra, “Decolonising Punk Poetry: The Politics of Resistance in the Poetry of Salena Godden and Danez Smith” Qudsia Akhtar, “Exploring the Fourth Space: Resistance in the Poetry and Poetics of Hafsah Aneela Bashir and Sascha Akhtar” |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Tea & Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | Panel 2 Poetry in the Now, Poetry for Social Justice Chair: Qudsia Akhtar | Covadonga Fernández Garcia, “Blurred Boundaries, Blurred Lines: Debris Stevenson and her Multi-Disciplinary Quest for Empowering Neurodiverse Students” Melanie Abrahams, “A Treatment for All Borders Blur 2023: Spoken Worlds” Bhumika Billa, “Art as a Social System: Dismantling Power Lock-Ins, One Poem at a Time” |
| 12:40 – 13:40 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:45 – 14:45 | Panel 3 On the Move: Choreopoems and Movement/Dance Chair: Bhumika Billa | Carol Leeming, “Choreopoelectics: My Choreopoetry, Multi-Disciplinary, Interdisciplinary Praxis of Embodied Orality, Intersectionality and Magic Realism” Abby Oliveira, “A Poet Runs Into Some Acrobats: Abby Oliveira’s Poetic Collaborations with Compagnie XY” Liz MacWhirter, Jonathan Kearney & Sander Vloebergs, “Blue: A Lament for the Sea” |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | Pastry Break | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Panel 4 Sounds of Resistance: Spoken Word Poetry and Music Chair: Ross McFarlane | Lence, “Blur the Lines: Process, Practice & Performance” Shefali Banerji, “Beyond Borders and Binaries: Intermediality and Queerness in Jasmine Gardosi’s Dancing to Music You Hate” Erin Gannon, “Shooting for the Moon and Missing: Trouble While Combining Poetry and Rock n’ Roll” |
| 16:10 – 17:10 | Keynote Lecture I Chair: Julia Lajta-Novak | Anthony Joseph, “Finding the Frequency at the Center” |
| 17:10 – 17:35 | Wrap-Up for Day One | |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Poetry Party at the Roebuck (now The Court) | featuring performances by Carol Leeming, Hannah Silva, and Red Medusa! |
| Day Two | Sunday 12 November | |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Welcome and Registration | |
| 10:05 – 11:05 | Panel 5 Poetry in the Digital Age: On Spoken Word and Technology Chair: Shefali Banerji | Claire Palzer, “‘All your disembodied heads floating on a screen’: Virtual Performance Practices in Mel Bradley’s Ms Noir’s Seven Deadly Sins” Hannah Silva, “My Child, the Algorithm” Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani & Atau Tanaka, “‘Heart Monologues’: The Cultural, Experimental, and Sensorial Journey of a Multilingual Poetry Performance” |
| 11:10 – 12:10 | Panel 6 From Page to Stage: Spoken Word Poetry and Theatre Chair: Claire Palzer | Rupert Smith, “Tract: Between the Root of a Tongue and a Heart” Ross McFarlane, “Lessons Learned from Experimental Audio Drama” Camellia Choudhuri, “‘All these lifetimes searching for body’: Examining Joelle Taylor’s Experiments with Gender and Genre” |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Pastry Break | |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Keynote Lecture II Chair: Shalini Sengupta | Joelle Taylor, “Transgenre” |
| 13:35 – 13:50 | Closing Remarks |