The Power of Caribbean Poetry - Word and Sound
A conference on Caribbean Poetry will be held at Homerton College and the Faculty of Education from 20-22 September 2012.
Speakers and performers include John Agard, Beverley Bryan, Kei Miller, Mervyn Morris, Grace Nichols, Velma Pollard, Olive Senior, Dorothea Smartt, and special guest Linton Kwesi Johnson.
For more details download the call for papers and see the Caribbean Poetry website.
The first two days of this international gathering will take the form of an academic conference, the final day having a more educational focus and therefore likely to appeal to teachers as well as scholars. Members of the Caribbean Poetry Project from University of Cambridge Faculty of Education and the University of West Indies will be hosting the conference and disseminating its outcomes.
Marilyn Brocklehurst's bookshop will be available throughout the conference and some project partners, such as the online Poetry Archive and Peepal Tree Press, will be represented.