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

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Events:

Friday 25th November 2011 with a poetry reading at 8.00pm on 24th November:

Robert Graves and Ireland: A Symposium. Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, QUB, Belfast, Friday 25th November 2011. Programme now published. 

Saturday 21st January 2012, 7.30 pm:

Ivor Gurney Film Premiere: ‘Severn and the Somme’ and Orchestral Works and Songs, Bristol Cathedral, 21st January 2012, 7.30pm.

View a YouTube clip of ‘Severn and the Somme’ Film.

Guardian Books Podcast: Armistice Day. 

Guardian Quiz: First World War Poetry. How much do you know?

Enduring Freedom: An Afghan Anthology. 

Vivien Noakes, 1937 – 2011. An Obituary by Jean Liddiard.

The English Association: The Poetry of the Great War Special Interest Group Formed.

The English Association’s Centenary Conference on the Poetry of the Great War, Oxford, September 2014.

Graves on Graves: BBC Podcast: Witness: World War I Poetry.

War Poetry Review 2010 Published in Printed and Electronic Editions.