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Programme Outline<\/h1>\n

Tuesday, 9 June
\nUniversity of Leeds campus<\/h1>\n

14:00 - 16:00<\/h2>\n

Poetry Manuscripts \u2013 Open House with Cultural Collections
\nJoin us for a curated exploration of items from Cultural Collections, showing how poets have engaged with the natural world across time. This session brings together rare books, letters, and manuscripts from the seventeenth century to the present day and offers exceptional opportunity to encounter these materials firsthand. Featuring works by Anne Finch, John Clare, and Simon Armitage, alongside contributions from unexpected and anonymous writers, the event highlights the many ways in which the natural environment has shaped poetic expression.<\/p>\n

Poetry@Leeds in collaboration with Leeds Literature Festival
\nEntry included with conference registration<\/p>\n

Treasures of the Brotherton<\/p>\n

18:00 - 19:00<\/h2>\n

The Caster Cultural Fellows in Poetry: A Reading and Celebration
\nMade possible by the generosity of the Caster family, Caster Cultural Fellowships in Poetry at the University of Leeds are designed to nurture creativity at a crucial stage in a poet\u2019s development. The work of Caster Cultural Fellows in Poetry continues to shape the poetry landscape in the UK and internationally. Join Poetry@Leeds and Leeds Literature Festival for a special celebration with readings from past Fellows Helen Mort, Malika Booker, Anthony V. Capildeo, Zaffar Kunial and Matt Howard and the announcement of the next Caster Fellow. Readings & conversation will be chaired by the Head of the School of English, Professor Hazel Hutchison.<\/p>\n

Welcome: Professor Andrew Thorpe, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Cultures<\/p>\n

Poetry@Leeds in collaboration with Leeds Literature Festival
\nEntry and reception included with conference registration<\/p>\n

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall<\/p>\n

19:00 - 19:45<\/h2>\n

Wine Reception<\/p>\n

Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall Foyer<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 10 June
\nCloth Hall Court<\/h1>\n

09:00 - 09:30<\/h2>\n

Registration & Arrival Tea\/Coffee<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

9:30 - 10:30<\/h2>\n

Welcome<\/p>\n

Director of Poetry@Leeds, Kimberly Campanello
\nHead of the School of English, Hazel Hutchison
\nPro-Dean for Research & Innovation, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Cultures, Matthew Treherne<\/p>\n

Poetry's Environments Activity<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite<\/p>\n

10:30 - 11:00<\/h2>\n

Morning Tea\/Coffee<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Contextual Environments 1<\/p>\n

Eoghan Totten, Michael Longley\u2019s Environmental Poetics
\nLouis Cameron, Environmental Ethics in Milton\u2019s Paradise Lost
\nAaron Prevots, Jacques R\u00e9da\u2019s Love of Creation in Lettre sur l\u2019univers (Letter on the Universe) (1991)
\nJessica Louise Olley, I dwell in Possibility: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Affective Ecology
\nPaula Rosenthal, Two Bluebells: Nature, Memory and the Divergent Poetics of Anne and Emily Bront\u00eb<\/p>\n

Cotton Room Cotton Room
\nChair: David Higgins<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Watery Environments<\/p>\n

Amna Umer Cheema, \u2018<\/span>Thinking with water\u2019: Thinking with Elizabeth Bishop\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0\u2018The Map\u2019<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nWanda O'Connor, Nomadic accumulations: a poetic exploration of water environments
\nLue Mac, The Words in the Whale: Elegising the Sea Shanty
\nMatthew Ward, Byron and the \u201csea-born city\u201d of Allusion
\nBlaise Sales, Water, Skin and Words: A Poetic Exploration of Three Environments<\/p>\n

Denim Room
\nChair: Emma Trott<\/p>\n

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11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Sacred Ecologies, Unsettled Bodies<\/p>\n

Ayesha Hussain, Ghulam Farid Sabri\u2019s 1991 Berlin Recording of J\u0101m\u012b the Poet: Poetics, Place and Posthumous Intention
\nSarah Stewart-Smith, Crossing into the Sacred: Faith and Open Access in John Clare\u2019s \u2018Sunday Walks\u2019 (1821)
\nRehnuma Sazzad, Mahmoud Darwish: Place, Precarity, and Justice
\nEnaie Maire Azambuja, The Ineffable Word: Apophatic Ecopoetics in Modernist and Contemporary American Poetry
\nShauna M. Morgan, Otherwise Poetics: Sound, Image, and the Unsettled Body in Black Poetry
\nMohan Ding, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge\u2019s Stellar Environment<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Hazel Hutchison<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Guillemot: A Loomery: Publishing, Environment & the Local<\/p>\n

Susie Campbell, Enclosure, extraction, and landfill: Wastelands and its \u2018waste poetics\u2019
\nBecca Drake, Fragmentary Medieval Landscapes: Poetry and the Hull Maritime Museum
\nEleanor Rees, Portents and Portals: A Poetics of Encounter within Environments
\nGenevieve Carver, Place-based partnerships and voicing the non-human
\nLuke Thompson, Guillemot Press and Vernacular Publishing
\nMaia Elsner & Mary Watson, Intermedial (co)Construction: Introducing Clay Play<\/span><\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair: Luke Thompson<\/p>\n

13:00 - 13:45<\/h2>\n

Lunch<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

13:45-15:00<\/h2>\n

Fieldworking 1<\/p>\n

Steve Ely, Eely: The Ecology of an Ecopoem
\nAdam Strickson, Being and Breath: the relationship between form and content in writing the Colne Valley, West Yorkshire
\nSusie Wilson, Clown River \/ Energy Fields
\nChad Campbell, \u2018Bright Particulars\u2019: transformations of the poetic by the natural in the poetry and journals of R.F. Langley<\/p>\n

Cotton Room
\nChair: David Higgins<\/p>\n

13:45-15:00<\/h2>\n

Marks & Materials 1<\/p>\n

Nasser Hussain, see\/hear \u2013 new works
\nChristodoulos Makris, nobody is going to be unique
\nOlivia McCannon, The Lives and Afterlives of Z:\u00a0<\/i>poems, images and sounds<\/p>\n

Denim Room
\nChair: Maia Elsner<\/p>\n

13:45-15:00<\/h2>\n

With and Between Crows, Bats, Swifts<\/p>\n

Chris Jones, Guessworking with Swifts
\nDavid Lloyd & Kim Waale, Intersections of the Human and Nonhuman in Poetry and Sculpture: a Collaboration
\nJon Gilbert, The Language of Crows
\nSarah Westcott, Handwing: A Lyric Exploration between Human and Bats<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Caitlin Stobie<\/p>\n

13:45-15:00<\/h2>\n

Translation Environments<\/p>\n

Janani Ambikapathy, editor of Modern Poetry in Translation
\nAustin Woerner, Vicarious Author, Vicarious Reader: Translation as a Glimpse into Other Minds
\nNicoletta Asciuto, Literary Translation in and out of the (English) Classroom<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair: Matthew Treherne<\/p>\n

15:00 - 15:30<\/h2>\n

Afternoon Tea\/Coffee<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Charms, Spells, Poisons<\/p>\n

Chloe Hanks, Creative Interventions in Archival Absences: The Aqua Tofana Poisonings
\nMilena Williamson, Creative and Critical Approaches to the Ecopoetics of Old English Poetry
\nJess Richards & Catherine Batt, Prayer and Charm: The Poetry of the Ingleby Arncliffe Crucifix Charms (presentation with creative engagement)<\/p>\n

Cotton\u00a0Room
\nChair: Hazel Hutchison<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Contextual Environments 2<\/p>\n

Jonathan Pitches, Norman Nicholson: Poet as Eco-dramatist
\nCaspar Wort, \u201cyeah the title instantly made me understand\u201d: Poetry\u2019s Textual Environments
\nCraig Moyes & James Wishart, Artificial flowers: a dialogue on poetry, referentiality and nature<\/p>\n

Denim\u00a0Room
\nChair: Emma Trott<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Fieldworking 2<\/p>\n

Kate Simpson, Lyric Fieldwork: Sediment & Sentiment
\nPaul Stephenson, On the Infraordinary
\nMaria Sledmere, Chronodiverse Ecologies: Dreamwork and the Poetics of Night
\nKatrina Porteous, Under the Ice<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Fiona Becket<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Poetry in Place 1<\/p>\n

Liam Bates, group chat: towards an ecopoetics of friendship in the more-than-human city
\nZakia Carpenter-Hall, Human Ecologies 2021
\nLiz Quirke, Poetry and Queer Geographies
\nBryony Aitchison, Side Quests: Transdisciplinary Art Walk<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair: Caitlin Stobie<\/p>\n

Wednesday, 10 June
\nUniversity of Leeds campus<\/h1>\n

18:00 - 19:00<\/h2>\n

Simon Armitage reading and conversation<\/p>\n

Join us for an evening with Simon Armitage, Poet Laureate and University of Leeds Professor of Poetry. Simon will read poems from across his work, including his latest books\u00a0Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation,\u00a0Blossomise,\u00a0Dwell, and\u00a0New Cemetery. In conversation with Kimberly Campanello, Director of Poetry@Leeds, he will explore the role of the natural environment in his poems and the various environments in which poetry is written and shared.<\/p>\n

Welcome:
\nMatthew Treherne, Pro-Dean for Research and Innovation, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Cultures, University of Leeds
\nNick Barley, National Poetry Centre<\/p>\n

This event is hosted by Poetry@Leeds, the University\u2019s hub for research, impact and teaching in poetry, in collaboration with the National Poetry Centre.<\/p>\n

Entry and reception included with conference registration<\/p>\n

Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre<\/p>\n

19:00 \u2013 19:45<\/h2>\n

Wine Reception<\/p>\n

Michael Sadler LG.10<\/p>\n

Thursday, 11 June
\nCloth Hall Court<\/h1>\n

09:00 - 09:30<\/h2>\n

Registration & Arrival Tea\/Coffee<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

09:30 - 10:30<\/h2>\n

Italian Ecopoetry in Translation: An Ecology of Attention<\/p>\n

Gabriele Belletti, Contemporary Italian Poetry and Ecology: An Anthology in Translation
\nSilvia Valisa, Moving Encounters: Italian Ecopoetry Translation Workshop at FSU
\nIlaria Boffa, Poetry & Field Recording Performance: The Sound of Elsewhere, bilingual (exophonic) reverberations from the field<\/p>\n

Cotton Room
\nChair: Gabriele Belletti<\/p>\n

09:30 - 10:30<\/h2>\n

Dislocating Location in Environmentalist Poetry<\/p>\n

Christina Kullberg, Ecopoetics of Turbulent Islandscapes: Richard Georges\u2019 Epiphanea
\nJane Hiddleston, Act in your place. Think with the world\u2019: Place and Globality in \u00c9douard Glissant\u2019s Essays and Poetry
\nSarah Jackson, \u2018WHERE STONE RUNS LIKE HONEY\u2019: Reading the Rocks in Anthony V. Capildeo\u2019s Polkadot Wounds<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Sarah Jackson<\/p>\n

09:30 - 10:30<\/h2>\n

The Call is Coming from Inside the House: Horror-Led Poetics \u2013 Process & Reflections<\/p>\n

Abigail Parry
\nAilbhe Darcy
\nChristina Thatcher<\/p>\n

Denim Room
\nChair: Ailbhe Darcy<\/p>\n

09:30 - 10:30<\/h2>\n

Poetry, Heritage and Community<\/p>\n

Abbi Flint, Poetry and Prehistory
\nBenjamin Turner, Belonging Through Creativity: Young People, Rap, and Reclaiming the Historic Environment
\nChristine Gerrard, Domi Blackmore & Laura Taylor, Conversations Between Poetry & the Historic Environment
\nJC Niala, Exploring Poetry Through the Lens of Heritage<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair: Christine Gerrard<\/p>\n

10:30 - 11:00<\/h2>\n

Morning Tea\/Coffee<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Arboreal Environments<\/p>\n

Amanda Blake Davis & Anna Burton, \u2018embowered in sycamore\u2019: Arboreal Environments in Romantic Poetry
\nJT Welsch, Navigating the Sea of Trees: Aokigahara and the Poetic Space of Suicide
\nMarjan Mohammadi, Iranian Women Poets: Arboreal Allegories and the Ecology of Desire
\nVeronica Exner, In the Midst of the Willows: Willowy Poems and Ways of Being
\nJay Gao, Strange Shade: Dwelling Under the Hanging Tree<\/p>\n

Cotton Room
\nChair: Emma Trott<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Poetry in Place 2<\/p>\n

Damon Fisher Shusterman, Museum Settings as Environments for Experiencing Poetry
\nTom Branfoot & Cathy Hirst, Writing Angel Meadow
\nAlice Eaves, Ghost of the Moors: Poetic responses to Hen Harrier persecution in the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire.
\nJohn Challis, Collaborating with other voices: Methods of composing poetry in conversation with people and place
\nSusanna Nash, Leeds Poetry Ecologies<\/p>\n

Denim Room
\nChair: Emma Cayley<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Bodies, Rhythms, Desiring Lines<\/p>\n

Dimitra Xidous, O, Let the Things Themselves! Desire(d) Line(s) & the Laws of Thermodynamics as Poetic Practice with\/in Space
\nG\u00e1bor Mezei, Repetition and Physiology \u2013 On the Impossibility of the Singular in Poetry
\nGrace Marsh, Internal Worlds: Environmental Blending in Disabled Poetics
\nCaroline Stancer, Restrictive masculinities as disavowal and rejection of the \u2018environment\u2019 of the body and the natural world. Poetry\u2019s portrayals, challenges and transformations
\nHugh Dunkerley, Entanglement, Deep Time and the Voice of Poetry<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Fiona Becket<\/p>\n

11:00 - 12.55<\/h2>\n

Ted Hughes: Papers from The Elmet Trust & The Ted Hughes Society<\/p>\n

Jodie Hollander, Placing Hughes\u2019s Elmet Environments within a Transatlantic Conversation
\nRachel Nisbet, Poetic Place-Making: From Hughes\u2019 Elmet to the Shaping of Local Enclosure Poetry
\nRuth Crossley, Ted Hughes and the \u2018Deadfall\u2019 Psyche
\nTerry Gifford, Avoiding and Exploring Hughes as a Model for Environmental Poetry
\nDi Beddow, 'I saw my world again through your eyes\u2019: Identifying Ted Hughes\u2019s Cambridge as a Living Archive
\nMark Wormald, Making Something Happen: the poetry, art and science of fresh water, from \u2018Owned by Everyone\u2019 to \u2018Living Water\u2019 and \u2018Flow On\u2019\u2026.<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair: Rachel Nisbet<\/p>\n

13:00 - 13:45<\/h2>\n

Lunch<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

13:45 - 15:00<\/h2>\n

Poetech Environments<\/p>\n

Richard A Carter, Aeolian Inscriptions\u2014Tracing a Poetics of Flight
\nJoey Connolly, The Poetic Environment of the Data Subject
\nChristian B\u00f6k, THE XENOTEXT<\/p>\n

Denim Room
\nChair: Fiona Becket<\/p>\n

13:45 - 15:00<\/h2>\n

Marks & Materials 2<\/p>\n

Lisa Kelly, Scavenger of Signs: A Poetry Performance Exploring How British Sign Language (BSL) as a Visual and Embodied Language Enhances Communication with the Environment
\nJR Carpenter, p a u s e. : a lecture performance on durational writing as land acknowledgement
\nM\u00e1ighr\u00e9ad Medbh, Vertigo of the Source: Wind Farm on a Waste Ridge
\nLydia Kennaway, The Marker Committee: Expanding the Poetic Page<\/p>\n

Cotton Room
\nChair: Maia Elsner<\/p>\n

13:45 -15:00<\/h2>\n

Poetry in Place 3<\/p>\n

Andrew McDonnell, Lowlands Away: Poetry and Pedagogy in the East Anglian Fens
\nKatie Bastiman, Dante in Jersey: Italian Poetry in an Island Community
\nLydia Unsworth, Embodied & Conscious Attending to Place
\nJon L. Pitt, Okamura Boshich\u014d: Environmental Poet of Prewar Little Tokyo<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Matthew Treherne<\/p>\n

13:45 - 15:00<\/h2>\n

Banshee Press & Hazel Press<\/p>\n

Jessica Traynor (editor Banshee Press) & Sara Hudston (editor Hazel Press)
\nBebe Ashley, Tim MacGabhann, Gregory Leadbetter<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair: Zaffar Kunial<\/p>\n

15:00 - 15:30<\/h2>\n

Afternoon Tea\/Coffee<\/p>\n

Merchants Hall<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Speaking of the Land and Planting Invasive Loving<\/p>\n

Anke Bernau, The Poetry of Moss
\nHelena Fornells Nadal, Speaking of Land \u2013 A Land-Aware Ecopoetics for Scotland
\nHannah Copley & Alycia Pirmohamed, performance of Hertz
\nKanika Ahuja, \"Sonnet Crown for Invasive Loving\" \u2013 Theorizing and Practicing Invasiveness as Disruption
\nKarishma Sangtani, \u2018I look for immigrants, plants who travelled well\u2019: Experiments in post-pastoral plant-thinking with Sumana Roy<\/p>\n

Denim\u00a0Room
\nChair: Emma Trott<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Migratory Listening<\/p>\n

Tom Crompton, Wishbone Valley, poetry reading
\nZo\u00eb Skoulding, An Epiphytic Poetics: Do I Look Like an Atmosphere?
\nJonathan Skinner, Poetry and the Planetary Garden: Ruderal Prosodies<\/p>\n

Cotton Room
\nChair: Zo\u00eb Skoulding<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Disturbed Environments<\/p>\n

J.S. Westbrook, Performance: The Oil & Gas Years
\nKen Wilson, \u201c\u2018They\u2019ve never smelled jet fuel\u2019: Dirty Nature Writing in Contemporary Canadian Poetry
\nRoula-Maria Dib, When Nature Turns Against Itself: Ecological Mirrorings and the Poetics of Autoimmunity
\nWeiheng Sun, Tanka in the Anthropocene: On Harryette Mullen\u2019s Urban Tumbleweed
\nElaine Ewart, The Professor of Transformation \u2013 a poetry reading<\/p>\n

Wool Room
\nChair: Hazel Hutchison<\/p>\n

15:30 - 17:00<\/h2>\n

Marks & Materials 3<\/p>\n

India Oswin, Deep Ecologies: Paula Claire's Pattern Poetics
\nLucy Cheseldine, A Template for the Times: Postcards Between Poets
\nEmily Middleton, Recontextualising the Poetry of Charles Dickens
\nRegina Menke, Insects and Intertext: Cicadas, Crickets, and Quotations in Two Contemporary German-language Poems<\/p>\n

Herringbone Suite
\nChair:\u00a0Maia Elsner<\/p>\n

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