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Afternoon Workshop, University of Reading, Edith Morley 175 1.30-6.00<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Room to Rhyme<\/em> is a British Academy funded research project investigating literature, crisis, arts policy and the public sphere, with special attention to poetry in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1978. The second project workshop will take place at the University of Reading on the afternoon of 13th April 2018. The afternoon will have an informal, interdisciplinary and collaborative atmosphere and is designed to promote discussion and facilitate contact between participants.<\/p>\n

There will be three presentations:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Heaney’s\u00a0 North <\/i>and Cultural Policy in Northern Ireland 1968-1975<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Conor Carville (Reading)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Conor Carville<\/strong> is Associate Professor of English at Reading University. His book on Irish cultural theory The Ends of Ireland: Criticism, History, Subjectivity<\/em>, was published by Manchester University Press in 2012.\u00a0 Samuel<\/em>\u00a0Beckett and the Visual <\/em>is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press in April 2018. He has recently been carrying out\u00a0research in the Northern Irish poetry archives at Emory University and the Arts Council Northern Ireland Archives, as part of his British Academy funded Room to Rhyme<\/em> project. His book of poems Harm’s Way<\/em> was published by Dedalus Press.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s No Such Place as Ballygrand<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Ian Duhig<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Ian Duhig<\/strong> has won the National Poetry Competition twice, and in 1994 was named as one of the Poetry Society’s ‘New Generation’ Poets. He worked for 15 years with homeless people, including a period in Belfast, and a concern with social issues continues to inform his work.\u00a0 He has published several poetry collections:\u00a0The Bradford Count<\/em>\u00a0(1991), shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection);\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Mersey Goldfish<\/em>\u00a0(1995), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize;\u00a0Nominies<\/em>\u00a0(1998), named as\u00a0one of the 1998\u00a0Sunday Times<\/em>\u00a0Poetry Books of the Year, and receiving a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation;\u00a0Lammas Hireling<\/em>\u00a0(2003), a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); and\u00a0The Speed of Dark<\/em>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0shortlisted for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. Pandorama<\/em> appeared in 2010. His latest collection,\u00a0The Blind Roadmaker\u00a0<\/em>(2010) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Read his essay To Witness<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, on poetry’s responsibilities.<\/p>\n

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Type Face<\/em>: <\/strong><\/h4>\n

A Reading and Reflection In and Out of the Archive:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Dr. Gail McConnell (Queen’s University, Belfast)<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Poet and critic Gail McConnell<\/strong>‘s research interests are in modern and contemporary British and Irish literature. Her monograph Northern Irish Poetry and Theology<\/em> (2014) explores the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon. Recent research has focused on Seamus Heaney and photography, Samuel Beckett and Protestant theology, Northern Irish poetry after the peace process and contemporary British poetry. Her\u00a0debut pamphlet is forthcoming with Green Bottle Press in 2018. A long poem, Typeface<\/em> was published in\u00a0Blackbox Manifold<\/em>\u00a0in December 2016. She won the Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/em> Pamphlet Competition in 2017, and will publish her second pamphlet with the press in 2019. Poems are published or forthcoming in PN Review<\/em>,\u00a0Eyewear Review, The Manchester Review, past simple <\/em>and The Tangerine.<\/em>\u00a0She is an editor of The Irish Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Register your place<\/h2>\n

The event is free and open to anyone interested. A sandwich lunch, plus tea and coffee, will be provided. If you would like to attend, please email the organiser, Conor Carville (c.carville@reading.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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