Robert Graves and Ireland: A Symposium. Friday 25th November 2011
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in association with the Robert Graves Society:
Robert Graves and Ireland: A Symposium
Friday 25th November 2011
Postgraduate Centre, 18 College Green, Belfast
Programme:
9.00am: Registration
9.15am: Welcome: Fran Brearton
9.30am: [Chair: Dunstan Ward] Mary Ann Constantine (University of Wales): ‘I know no country like it’: Graves and the matter of Wales.
10.30am: Coffee break
11.00am-12.30: [Chair: Eamonn Hughes]
Elizabeth Grove White (University of Victoria): ‘Robert Graves’s Irish Inheritances’
Michael McAteer (Queen’s University Belfast): ‘Digging up Graves’: A. P. Graves and Irish Revival
12.30-1.30: LUNCH
1.30-2.45pm: [Chair: Ed Larrissy]
Grigory Kruzhkov (Russian State University for the Humanities) ‘The White Goddess and the Black Centaur; Poetic Mythologies of Graves and Yeats’
Gerald Dawe (Trinity College Dublin) ‘Goodbye to all that: Graves’s war and Irish writing’
2.45-3.15pm: Coffee
3.15-4.30pm: [Chair: Edna Longley]
Jonathan Allison (University of Kentucky) ‘Graves, the goddess and the mirrored man’
Fran Brearton (Queen’s University Belfast) Graves and modern Irish poetry
4.30-5.30pm: John Montague: On Robert Graves
6.00pm: Wine reception and presentation of the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize.
Details & downloads: http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHeaneyCentreforPoetry/RobertGravesandIrelandSymposium/
Also:-
Poetry Reading by John Montague
Thursday 24 November at 8pm in Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast
Admission Free
