I shall speak on Ulrike Draesner and Alice Oswald at this fascinating day conference in September
Lyric and Lyricism
A one-day, multi-disciplinary event exploring the lyric form and its interactions across music and poetry - at Ertegun House, Oxford
Hosted by the Ertegun Scholarship Programme and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, with the kind support of The Oxford Song Network (TORCH), the day brings together academics and performers from different disciplines (including Classicists, English and German literary specialists, musicologists, musicians and poets) and centres around a lecture-recital given by renowned musicians Stephan Loges (bass-baritone) and Natasha Loges (piano).
Michael Silk (KCL): Aristocratic Humanities: Pindar, Castiglione, and Yeats; Pauline Le Ven (Yale): Hearing Greek Lyric as Music Again; Stephan Loges and Natasha Loges (Bass-baritone and piano): 18th-century lyrics in 19th-century dress: Brahms’s and Schubert’s settings of Ludwig Hölty’s poetry; Georgina Paul (Oxford): Pacing the emotion: lyric's time-space; Karen Leeder (Oxford): 'Subsongs': The contemporary lyric and a listening poetics; William Fitzgerald (KCL): Lyric, Song and Stanza: a Horatian perspective; Dat Griffiths (Oxford Brookes): The lyrics, lyrical and not so lyrical, of selected popular songs; Stephanie Oade (Oxford): Dramatic lyric: when Catullus meets music; Josephine Balmer (Poet): Making it Personal: Lyric Transformations through Translation and Poetry