Call for Papers - The Line of Contemporary Poetry

This may not be OUR kind of thing, but we thought we'd recommend it as an opportunity for tactical diversions: anyone out there want to help these boys determine what The Line is?

The British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference
22-24 September 2006
to be held as St Anne's College, Oxford, England
in association with the University of St Andrews; Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University Belfast; and Lancaster University.

Speakers include Professor Jonathan Bate, Professor John Kerrigan, Professor Robert Crawford, Dr Mark Ford and Dr Deryn Rees-JonesAbstracts are invited on the conference theme of:The Line of Contemporary Poetry.

Abstracts to be 300 words in length on the conference theme and should propose papers which will read to 20 minutes. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 March 2006. Ideas for panels and conference events in non-traditional formats arewelcomed. For further information, contact John Stammers editor@poetryconference.org.uk.