Confirmed: Tony Lopez

Further good news! We are very pleased indeed to inform you that Tony Lopez will also be joining us to read his poetry.

Tony Lopez is Professor Emeritus in Poetry at Plymouth University. His work on Bunting can be found in his book Meaning Performance: Essays on Poetry (Salt) and also appears  in the Durham University Journal, Basil Bunting Special Issue as a piece exploring Bunting's relationship with place: 'Under Saxon the Stone: National Identity in the Poetry of Basil Bunting'.

His recent poetic publications include False Memory (Shearsman, 2012), Only More So (UNO Press, 2011) and Darwin (Acts of Language, 2009).

Confirmed: Tom Pickard

Good news! We are excited to announce that Tom Pickard will join us to give a poetry reading.

Poet Tom Pickard was crucial to Bunting's revival in the 1960s. He helped set up the Morden Tower poetry centre in Newcastle where many well known poets, including Bunting, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Cobbing and Gregory Corso, as well as Pickard himself,  have read their work.

Details about further poetry readings that will take place at the conference will be posted soon. Readings will be open to all. A fee for non conference-delegates may be payable.