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April 8, 2025
Poetry Off the Page: Past, Present, Future (24 Apr 2025, University College Dublin)
Dublin, IRE – The Poetry Off the Page project, in collaboration with UCD and Boundless and Bare, is thrilled to announce the upcoming Poetry Off the Page: Past, Present, Future event, set to take place on April 24th 2025 from 3:30-5:30 pm in the FitzGerald Debating Chamber at UCD. This event consists of poetry performances by Emmet O’Brien and Stephen James Smith and a roundtable discussion with organisers and scholars of poetry performance, including Paul Casey (Ó Bhéal), Lucy Collins (UCD), Claire Palzer (University of Vienna) and Melissa Ridge (Boundless and Bare). It will be followed by an open mic opportunity for audience members.
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April 8, 2025
Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Registration Open!
Registration is now officially open for our third and final project conference, titled “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Advances in Poetry Performance Research.” You can register for the conference and the evening programme via Eventbrite. (Please note that registration for the two events is separate.) Find out more…
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February 25, 2025
Boxing Day: Performance and Talk with William Keohane (02 Apr 2025, Univ. of Vienna)
We’re excited to announce that on 02 April 2025, at 19:00, we will be joined at the University of Vienna (Seminar Room 5, 1st floor, at the Department of English and American Studies) by the writer William Keohane, who will be performing an abridged version of Boxing Day, a series…
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January 7, 2025
Artist Talk with Malaika Kegode (22 Jan 2025, Univ. of Vienna)
We’re excited to announce that on 22 January 2025, at 18:15, we will be joined at the University of Vienna (Helene Richter-Saal at the Department of English and American Studies) by none other than poet, performer, creative producer and theatre-maker Malaika Kegode. She will give an artist talk which will…
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December 19, 2024
Newsletter #9
Our second newsletter of 2024 is out now! Access it here:
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December 5, 2024
Podcast Episode 3
Our third podcast episode is finally out! In this one, senior researcher Helen Thomas explores the role of MCs (masters of ceremonies) at a selection of poetry performance events in the UK from the 1980s to the present day. Listen now on our website or on Spotify!
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October 29, 2024
Newsletter #8
Our second newsletter of 2024 is out now! Access it here:
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October 1, 2024
Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Call for Papers
The Call for Papers for our third and final project conference “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Advances in Poetry Performance Research” has been published. This will be a two-day conference organised in cooperation with University of Vienna and Literaturhaus Wien. You can find the CfP on our conference…
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February 22, 2024
Podcast Episode 2
In the second episode, PhD researcher Claire Palzer explores poetry performances at contemporary festivals, focusing on Lingo, Ireland’s spoken word festival (2014-2016). Claire talks about Lingo’s lasting impact and how the festival shaped the poetry that was performed there. The episode incorporates extracts from the poets/performers Kalle Ryan, Felicia Olusanya…
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February 15, 2024
Podcast Episode 1
In the first PoP podcast episode, PhD researcher Shefali Banerji explores the various artforms that poets incorporate in their long form spoken word shows. Shefali particularly focuses on the oral and aural artistic innovations that feature in these shows, which are also called spoken word plays. The episode incorporates poem…
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