Keynote Lecture: "What the Poem Wants"

Michael Dennis Browne

".... the poetic process from the inside—what the writing of a poem asks of a poet, how one improvises, how wide the range of considerations is and of what this range consists, at least in part (since it’s an endless topic), including rhythmical energy; playfulness; imagery; intuitiveness; language; the poem as an opportunity for the reader to imagine; the poem as a sequence of imaginative decisions (irrigating, not flooding, the reader); self-collaboration and the art of revision; the initial subject and the generated subject; taking risks; the value of memorization; the role of sound; the role of memory; etc!

Papers Presented

Anne F. O’Reilly (St Patrick’s College, DCU)
‘Poetry and the journey into the heart’.

Ciarán Ó Coigligh (St Patrick’s College, DCU)
‘The poetry of Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II)’

Kevin Williams (MDI)
‘Poetry and Faith in a Secular World: The Educational
Challenge’.

Nerys Williams (UCD)
‘Pedagogical Poetics: collaboration between theory and practice’.

Irene Gilsenan Nordin (Dalarna University College, Sweden)
‘Poetry in Education and Education in Poetry’.

Sean M. Conrey (St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia)
‘Engaging oral and literate memory in student poetry’.

Lyndsey Lefebvre (California University, Fullerton)
‘The Ideal Poetry Class: It Does Exist!’

Peter Denman (NUIM)
‘Poetry through Paintings’

John Scattergood, (TCD)
‘Reading between the lines in a poem by Philip Larkin’

Anne Mulhall (UCD)
'Ahistorical? Temporality, Sexuality and the Pedagogy of Poetry'

Helen Conrad O’Briain (TCD)
‘Vergil, Servius and the education of the West’.

Stephen Matterson (TCD)
‘Anne Bradstreet’s “bald didactic rhyme” ’.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (TCD)
‘Poetry & Education – teaching poetry translation’.

John McAuliffe (University of Manchester)
‘No more sestinas: on the priorities of the academic poetry workshop’.