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Ever wondered whether W. S. Graham liked to draw? Or what he made of flying? Or what kinds of spaces – real and imagined – are opened up by his tricky poetry? Come along on Friday to hear a group of people asking and answering these questions – and some others – as we celebrate the centenary of the poet’s birth.
PANEL 1 (10-11.15am)
‘Aerial Graham’ (Abbie Garrington, Durham University; David Trotter, University of Cambridge)
‘W. S. Graham and Prunella Clough’ (Leo Mellor, University of Cambridge)
PANEL 2 (11.45-1pm)
‘Acting Out in Graham’ (Beci Carver, University of Exeter)
‘W. S. Graham’s “Automatic Drawings”’ (David Nowell Smith, University of East Anglia)
PANEL 3 (2-3.15pm)
‘W. S. Graham in Denise Riley: Elegies of Isolation’ (Sophie Read, University of Cambridge)
‘“Dammit these words are making faces”’ (Rosa van Hensbergen, University of Cambridge)
PANEL 4 (3.45-5pm)
‘Fathers, Men, and Distance in W. S. Graham’ (Rebecca Barr, NUI Galway)
‘Reproducing Graham(s)’ (Jack Barron, University of Cambridge)
