Description

The conference aims to bring together international poets, literary critics, translators and scholars from diverse contexts and interdisciplinary fields to share their work. As the 2024 edition is dedicated to issues related to poetry, poetics and translation, we invite papers, presentations, manuscripts, panels, roundtables, performances, and other forms of contributions relevant to the areas of investigation.

Call For Papers

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • from Aristotelian poetics to 21st century aesthetics
  • poiesis, mimesis, kinesis
  • (non-)originality/individuality/voice amidst technical innovation
  • subject-construction in poetry
  • gender and poetic imagination
  • tropes and schemes of the 21th century
  • hybrid & cross-genre poetic modes
  • the immeasurable and/or non-measurable in poetry
  • form, proportion and balance: long poems, poetic sequences
  • associations, juxtapositions and connections
  • ekphrasis and ideology
  • poetry and the arts: poetic and artistic collaborations
  • poetry and science
  • poetry and architecture
  • poetry and mathematics
  • language-centered poetics (including Language- and post-Language writing)
  • conceptual and post-conceptual poetry
  • urban poems and poetry
  • poetics and politics
  • poethics and theopoetics
  • ecopoetics and ecocriticism
  • performance or performative
  • sound and silence
  • poetry between phrase and metaphrase
  • translation, inerpretation, adaptation
  • the translatability of metaphors
  • limits and limitations of the poetic discourse
  • the role(s) of the reader
  • poetry ages and generations
  • publishing poetry today

Paper proposals up to 250 words and a brief biographical note should be sent to: poetry@lcir.co.uk.