Programme
29 October 2015
Thursday 29 October
| 14.00 | Arrival and Registration Tea and Coffee |
| 15.00 | Session 1: The Truth of Nature: The Metaphysical Landscape Jonathan Naumann, ‘The Silurist’s Pastoral: Henry Vaughan’s Spiritual Landscapes in Silex Scintillans’ Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise, ‘“To feel and measure all the excellence / Of things”: “Natural Things” as Borderlands in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne’ Hillary Davies, ‘Charged with the grandeur of God: Henry Vaughan and Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Experience of the Sacred’ |
| 16.45 | Plenary: Peter Mitchell: Pilgrimage “into the Maine” Anatomical and Colonial Encounter in Works by John Donn |
| 18.00 | Dinner |
| 19.30 | The Welsh Marches: A talk by Mervyn Bramley - The Brecknock Society Bar open afterwards for informal conversation & discussion |
30 October 2015
Friday 30 October
| 08.00 | Breakfast |
| 09.00 | Session 2: A Metaphysical Style? The Spirit(uality) of Writing Greg Miller, ‘Crucifying Craft: a Donne-Herbert Dialogue’ Sean McDowell, ‘Henry Vaughan’s Welsh Bird’ Raymond Jean Frontain, ‘Hopkins, Donne, and the Syntax of Spiritual Effort’ |
| 10.30 | Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00 | Session 3: Crossing Borders: The Welsh Marches John Burton, ‘The Topography of Desire in the Sonnets of John Davies of Hereford’s Wittes Pilgrimage’ Joseph Sterrett, ‘John Davies of Hereford and the King of Denmark’ Angela Balla, ‘Sites of Toleration? Spiritual Liminality and the Welsh Marches in Vaughan’s Verse’ |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Poetry Walk |
| 15.00 | Tea and coffee |
| 15.30 | Session 4: Redeeming Verse: Poems of Innocence and Experience Cynthia Gaw, ‘Pleasure Bait: Moral Boundaries in “The Church- Porch”’ Colleen Wethered, ‘”Most poore: With thee”: The Place of Poverty in Herbert’s ‘’Easter Wings’’’ Beth Dodd, ‘Innocence and the Borders of the Soul in the Work of Thomas Traherne’ |
| 17.00 | Plenary: Sophie Read, ‘Henry Vaughan and the Land of Spices’ |
| 18.00 | Dinner |
| 19.30 | Border Songs: a performance by Roger Garfitt & Gareth Rees-Roberts Bar open afterwards for informal conversation & discussion |
31 October 2015
Saturday 31 October
| 08.00 | Breakfast |
| 09.00 | Session 5: Illuminating the Heavens: Natural Philosophy and Mysticism in Metaphysical Poetry Jennifer Newton, ‘Preparing Hearth and Heart for Christ: George Herbert’s Latin Poem “Martha: Mary” in Theological Context’ Abigail Marcus, ‘“Active as Light”: Vaughan’s Radiant Traversals’ Orlando Reade, ‘Radiant correspondents: Katherine Philips and Henry Vaughan across the borders of English poetry’ |
| 10.30 | Tea and Coffee |
| 11.00 | Session 6: Title to be confirmed Elizabeth Clark, title to be confirmed Simon Jackson, ‘Sound and Space Herbert’s Temple’ |
| 12.30 | Lunch – followed by Free Time |
| 15.30 | Tea and Coffee |
| 15.30 | Session 7: After Eden: Negotiating the Post-Lapsarian World Fahimeh Nasseri, ‘“Thou art my wisdome, Lord”: Augustinian wisdom in Herbert’s poetry’ Christopher Hodgkins, ‘Between Two “Worlds”: Herbert and Vaughan Anatomize the Age’ Grant Lilford, ‘George Herbert, RS Thomas and Renunciation’ |
| 17.00 | Harp Recital – Mared Emlyn |
| 18.30 | Dinner |
| 19.30 | Crossing Borders: a Poetry Reading, Greg Miller |
1 November 2015
Sunday 1 November
| 08.00 | Breakfast |
| 09.30 | Session 10: Old and New Metaphysical perspectives Helen Wilcox, ‘"Invisible Margin": Marcher Piety and Poetry in Lewis Bayly and George Herbert'. Jane Aaron, ‘“Before the Dark”: The Twenty-first Century Poetry of Ruth Bidgood and Anne Cluysenaar’ Chloe Preedy, ‘Ethereal Imagery in Ovidian (meta)physics’ |
| 11.00 | Tea and Coffee |
| 11.30 | Plenary 3: Robert Wilcher, “This figure on the edge”: The liminal poetry of Henry Vaughan. |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 | Conference Close and depart |