‘Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form’

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 am UTC+00:00

Senate House, London | London

Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre
Publisher/HostRoyal Holloway Poetics Research Centre
\u2018Material Poetics: Drafting, Duration, Form\u2019
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9:30 Refreshments
10:00 Welcoming remarks
10:15- 11:15 Panel 1
Room 2: Granular Materials
Corin Sworn, System of a Storm: Infrastructure, Concealment and Wild
Weather
Jennie Howitt, HAB ‘tat: Ingesting and Polluting Ecopoetic Material
Jonathan Boyd, The Filthy Ruins of an Asemic Materialism and a Contronymic Logic
Room 3: By Hand: Gestures,Handwriting, Imprints
Tom Bailey: Ugly, like my adolescence: On Handwriting, Shame and (Im)personality
Caroline Harris, ‘insect Interventions’: amaterial poetic practice of attempted care
E Scourti, Dissolve to Touch: Writing through Surface from Screen to Street

11:30- 12:30 Panel 2
Room 2: Sounding Materials
Annabelle Hondier, “HEAD MOVEMENTS DEFINE SOUNDS EMITTED”: Making and reading poetry as electronic music in Yukio
Tsuchiya ’s Works in Progress 1972-73
Lucie McLaughlin, You Think It’s Clouds Lining Your View But Actually It’s Snow
Simon Perril and John Young, Sonic Anaclastics and Palimpsestic Practice: a collaborative voyage into Lévi-Strauss

Room 3: Poetry’s Cultural Work
Lola Steiner, Carla Harryman’s “Concrete Utopia”
Kiah Endelman Music, Writing beside midrash with Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Robert Hampson, Reworked Disasters: Seriality and cultural work from an explanation of colours to covodes 1-19
12:30-13:15 Lunch
Keynotes
1:15-14:45 Jeanne Heuving, Mediums and Materialities in Initiatory Works: Cecilia Vicuña, Rachel DuPlessis and Bhanu Kapil
Cole Swensen, Seeing Writing Reading
15:00-16:00 Panel 3
Room 2: From Above: Maps, Drawings, Blueprints
Lola Gabellini-Fava, ‘To suggest an incomplete project’: Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Cloud Board’ and the Architectural Drawing
Gareth Hughes, Interstices and passages: navigating Earth’s Horizons with Michèle Métail
Nathaniel King, From Glider to Grimoire: Mediating Cornwall Through Material Geopoetics
Room 3: Reading as Process
Jo Hamill, Gutter Words: writing through reading, listening through looking
Joseph Shafer, The Surface of Appearances in Barbara Guest
Ilsa Colsell, Translating the Archive: Edwin Morgan’s Scrapbooks
16:00-17:00 Panel 4
Room 2: Collaborative Compositions Clare Lees and Cora Weiss, KIN: In Process, In Person, and In Conversation
Joseph Rizzo Naudi, ‘On Seeing the Marbles’: a narrative poem based on a blind-led, co-creative artwork description process
Alice Baxter and Ewan East,'Happy, Young and Bright as a Rolled Ankle': Mutability in Ekphrastic Translation
Room 3: Between Form and Body
Jemma Desai, Tremblement/Intifada: Trembling as Material Poetics
Jessa Mockridge, A high vis jacket with the sun shining on the shiny bits: Captioning my Artist Video with Feedback from Collective Text
Sarah Hayden, clotted inbetweens
17:00
Closing remarks
18:00-20:00 Small Press Takeover/ Poetics Research Centre readings:
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (by video link)
Jeanne Heuving
Cole Swensen
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