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International Conference on Poetry Studies: Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation
19 Sept 2026 – 20 Sept 2026 Birkbeck, University of London, London
The International Conference on Poetry Studies brings together international poets, literary critics, translators, and scholars to explore poetry, poetics, and translation across diverse contexts. The event examines poetry as a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience, addressing topics ranging from Aristotelian poetics to 21st-century aesthetics.
Conference theme
Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation
Objectives
To bring together international poets, literary critics, translators and scholars from diverse contexts and interdisciplinary fields to share their work, focusing on issues related to poetry, poetics and translation.
Who should attend
International poets, literary critics, translators, and scholars from diverse contexts and interdisciplinary fields.
Organising Committee
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
Call for Papers
We invite papers, presentations, manuscripts, panels, roundtables, performances, and other forms of contributions relevant to the areas of investigation.
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 by 31 July 2026 to: poetry@lcir.co.uk. Please download the Paper proposal form. Selected papers presented in person will be published in a post-conference volume with ISBN.
Registration
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