Alice Notley: three responses and a reading (Twentieth Century and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar (3S))

A rare UK reading by poet Alice Notley, preceded by three critical responses in celebration of her work.

4.45-6.45pm: responses by Anne Boyer, Dr Zoë Skoulding and Professor Carol Watts

7.00-8.00pm: a reading by Alice Notley

Over a career now in its fourth decade, Alice Notley has gained widespread recognition as one of the most important poets writing in English. To mark this rare UK appearance, her reading will be preceded by responses from:

Anne Boyer (Judith E. Wilson fellow in poetry for 2018-19), '"Put yourself somewhere near the beginning": Poetic Counter-Genealogy and Doctor Williams' Heiresses'

Dr Zoë Skoulding (Reader in Creative Writing at Bangor University), 'Translation and Entanglement in Alice Notley's Culture of One'

Professor Carol Watts (Professor of Literature and Poetics at the University of Sussex), 'Singing with the Ghoul-Girls: Poetry and Cruelty'.