Moore Institute Workshop 2011-12:Eco-poetry now! Reading, writing and understanding poetry in an age of environmental crises

Eco-poetry Now!

Reading,Writing and Understanding Poetry in an Age of Environmental Crises.

Workshop, hosted by the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Gender Arc, UL Alliance

Friday, 13^th of January, Moore Institute, NUI Galway

9.00 ‰ÛÒ 9.35 GearÌ_id Denvir (NUIG): Guth Ì_n talamh anÌ_os – A Voice from the Land:The Ecopoetics of Gaeltacht Oral Poetry.

9.40 ‰ÛÒ 10.15 Margaret Mills- Harper (UL) Inside/Outside: Space in Contemporary Poetry by Irish Women

10.20 ‰ÛÒ 10.55 Adrian Paterson (NUIG): Yeats’ Trees

Coffee break

11.15 – 11.50 Sanghita Sen (Presidency College Calcutta): Nature as Divine ‰ÛÒ India, the Upanishads, Tagore‰۪s poetry

11.55 ‰ÛÒ 12.30 Helen Phelan (UL) Herrad of Landsberg’sHortus Deliciarum/ Garden of Delights and Somatic Epistemology.

Lunch Break

14.00 ‰ÛÒ 14.35Christian Schmitt-Kilb (University of Rostock): Ecopoetic Prose: Paul Farley’s and Michael Symmons Roberts’ Edgelands (2011)

14.40 – 15.15 Roman Bartosch (University of Cologne) ‘The Reverie will Do’ ‰ÛÒ Critical World Making, Poetry and Ethics

Graduate Panel:

15.20 ‰ÛÒ 16.00Hanne Hasenkamp: Floods, Arks and Climate Change in Contemporary Fiction

16.05 ‰ÛÒ 16.25 Sabine Lenore MÌ_ller: The fallacy of the fallacy – Exploring the Ontological Claims of Ruskin’s’Pathetic Fallacy’ and Modern Eco-poetry’s Counterclaims

Coffee break

16.45 ‰ÛÒ 17.45 Poetry Workshop with Fred Johnston (Western Writers’ Center, (Ionad

ScrÌ_bhneoiri ChaitlÌ_n Maude)

20.00 SeanÌ_s, Folk and Poetry Event in Kai Restaurant, Sea Road

(please email tina-karen.pusse@nuigalway.ie for details)