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The Line of Contemporary Poetry 22nd-24th September 2006 Hosted by St Anne's College, Oxford The Inaugural Conference FULLY BOOKED The Inaugural Conference, hosted by St Anne's College, Oxford, will take place on 22nd-24th September 2006. The sessions will run from Friday lunchtime to Sunday lunchtime (two days over three): Closed Sessions (Registered Attendees) Welcome Speech Professor Robert Crawford After-Dinner Speech, Friday evening: A L Kennedy Papers and Symposia: all days, by academics and poets. Schedule (PDF) | Schedule (Word Doc) Parallel Papers (PDF) | Parallel Papers (Word Doc) Abstracts (PDF) | Abstracts (Word Doc) Please note to open PDF files, you will need to have Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader installed on your machine. Acrobat Reader is a free piece of software that you can download from the Adobe web site. Open Sessions - Booking details The Michael Donaghy Lecture An annual lecture by a respected poet or academic on a topic of their choosing, related to British and Irish contemporary poetry Saturday 23 Sept 3pm: Professor Jonathan Bate speaking about 'The Green Line' - poetry and ecology Poetry Reading by three eminent poets with a connection to the hosting universities Saturday 23 Sept 8pm: Michael Longley, Glyn Maxwell and Deryn Rees-Jones