St Andrews Poetry Forum: Research Seminars

2009/10 - Semester 2

The seminar organiser is Dr Rossella Riccobono

All seminars are held in Buchanan Room 216 at 5.15pm unless otherwise stated

25 February
Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews)
Sappho and the internalisation of myth

Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews)
Cesare Pavese's Poetry: Mythologising Piedmont

17 March
Poetry Forum/Mosaici Symposium - Poetry and Conflict 9.30-13.00
Special Guests: Alexandra Petrova (poet: St Petersburg)
Paper by Tatiana Filosofova (University of St Andrews)
Other poets: M Fantuzzi, Douglas Dunn, Donald Murray

22 April - with Italica
Prof Paolo Bartoloni (University of Galway)
Ending into the real: on the thingness of art through Giorgio Caproni and Michelangelo Anontioni

2009/10 - Semester 1

The seminar organiser is Dr Rossella Riccobono

All seminars are held in Buchanan Room 216 at 5.15pm unless otherwise stated

22 October, 5.15pm
Eddie Gibbons (Aberdeen): Urbane Myths
Alan Jamieson (University of Edinburgh): Old Retold
Poetry Readings

17 November, 5.15pm
Eleanor Livingstone (St Andrews - StAnza)
Kevin McNeil (Outer Hebrides - Edinburgh)
From Stornoway to St Andrews: Poetry Readings

10 December, 5.15pm
David Evans (St Andrews): Nineteenth-Century French Poetry and the Myth of Nationhood
Emma Buckley (St Andrews): De-mythologising the Aeneid: post-Virgilian responses to Rome's foundation-myth'

2009/10 - Semester 2

25 February, 5.15pm
Stephen Halliwell (St Andrews): Sappho and the internalisation of myth
Rossella Riccobono (St Andrews): Cesare Pavese's Poetry: Mythologising Piedmont

17 March, 9.30-1pm
Poetry Forum/Mosaici Symposium - Poetry and Conflict
Special Guests: Alexandra Petrova (poet - St Petersburg)
Paper by Tanya Filosofova (St Andrews)
Other poets: Douglas Dunn, M. Fantuzzi, Donald Murray
Venue tbc

22 April (with ITALICA), 5.15pm
Paolo Bartoloni (Galway)
Ending into the real: on the thingness of art through Giorgio Caproni and Michelangelo Antonioni.