Project News

The Call for Papers for our special collection ‘Poetry Off the Page: International Advances in Poetry Performance Research’ is out now.

The conference report for our third project conference, which was titled ‘Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe: Advances in Poetry Performance Research’ and took place 13-14 June 2025 in Vienna, is now available. It was authored by PoP team members and organisers Shefali Banerji and Rachel Bolle-Debessay.

For all the spoken word and poetry performance researchers out there: The Poetry Off the Page project bibliography is now available via our website. It was compiled and edited by postdoctoral researcher Rachel Bolle-Debessay and student assistant Purva Dua. Header image by Iñaki del Olmo on Unsplash.

Our fourth podcast episode is out now! In this one, our postdoctoral researcher Rachel Bolle-Debessay examines the role of ‘bass’ in dub poetry. Listen now on our website and on Spotify!

Guest lecture by Prof. Richard Andrews at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna Join us for a guest lecture and Q&A with Prof. Richard Andrews, on the theme of “Poetry off the Page: Rhythm, Free Verse and Translation in Context”. Richard Andrews is Professor Emeritus of…

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.

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…