25/10/2017
Please come along next Tuesday, Halloween, to:
JOHN ASHBERY: A CELEBRATION
A Half-Day Symposium
October 31, 1:30-5 p.m.
Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building,
University of Sydney
Poetry readings:
Hazel Smith, Pam Brown
Short Papers:
· Kate Lilley, 'Ashbery's Breeze Blocks'
· James Jiang, ‘“Something/ Nobody Can Translate”: John Ashbery’s “Summer” and Pragmatist Poetics’
· Anthony Cordingley, ‘Ashbery’s fairy tale, or “The White Cat”?’
· Mark Byron, ‘The Subtle Art of Dissent: John Ashbery’s “Rivers and Mountains”’
· Melissa Hardie, ‘‘“Yes,” said Claire, “and then again, no”’: A Nest of Ninnies’ Inversions’
· Julian Murphet, ‘Ashbery’s Mild Apocalypse’
· Sean Pryor, ‘Minor Ashbery’
· Mark Steven, ‘Total Ashbery’
Round Table:
Ashbery’s legacies
Drinks, further readings, festivities from 6 p.m.:
Forest Lodge Hotel
See you there! And pass the word along…
