I talked (and read poetry) at this day conference organised by Robert Hampson of Royal Holloway: Pierre Joris and The British Poetry Revival
6 December 2025: Senate House, University
of London, WC1E 7HU
I spoke on 11th June 1965 (which has, of course, been test-driven on this blog recently; indeed, I referred to the blog.
There were great papers in both halves of the day, including Dr Carl Kears on ‘Bill Griffiths and the Phoenix in Seaham’. Allen Fisher, Robert Hampson, Andrew Duncan (his blog is on my blogroll), Peter Middleton, Andy Spragg and William Rowe; and Nicole Peyafitte on the late (and lamented) Pierre Joris. (His blog is on my blogroll.)
The day ended with a reading from Allen Fisher, Geraldine Monk and myself.
A quick drink with old friends, and new, and back on the train to Liverpool.
I read from ELLE, my new 'verse-novel', a week old; from 'Holme Fell', my latest poetry-photo collaboration with Trev Eales (all unpublished); and from Stars: A Comedy Machine (also unpublished, but written about on this blog).
Two posts relevant to my paper are: Pages: How the British Poetry Revival appears in one history of its times: Dominic Sandbrook’s White Heat. and Pages: The British Poetry Revival again: 11 June 1965: Lee Harwood and John Ashbery write a poem together.
I wrote about Stars here: Pages: On abandoning my transposition of Dante: thoughts and extracts.
