Call for papers – 2025 SAES congress

We are awaiting your proposals for the upcoming SAES conference. You will find the general CFP here and the congress website here. Here is a non-exhaustive list of extra ideas that are more directly related to poetry: 

• The whole question of continuity and rupture, whether within a poetic movement or a particular poet’s body of work.  Stylistic development – or leaps – from one poetry collection to the next, or one poem to the next. Transitions from early works to late style
• Transitions between poetic currents e.g. from Romanticism to Post-Romanticism, or the shiftings between the Georgians (Hardy, Thomas) to the War Poets (Owen, Thomas again) and the Modernists. How transitional are the transitional poets? 
• And therefore how does poetry embody cultural transition ? Against the narrative of disruptive productions that suddenly change the history of poetry, to what extent do neglected poets pave the way for transition? 
• Close reading of poems centred on times of transition in life or life-changing moments, either the poet’s own life or someone else’s, as in Thom Gunn’s portrait of (male) adolescence ‘The Slow Waker’. Narratives of transitioning – genre and gender – and « transclassing » (Joelle Taylor, working class poet about butch lesbian counterculture)Transitions in poem sequences, from Shakespeare’s sonnets to some of Geoffrey Hill’s works (The Triumph of Love, Speech ! Speech !). Diasporic poetry
• Writing ‘nature’, the pastoral and the seasons, by definition transitional spaces
• the production and reception of poetry in the digital age. Transition from one media to another and back (the example of music : Patti Smith, PJ Harvey) or the difficulty to categorize (Bob Dylan)ways in which poets come to be associated with specific periods e.g. so-called Thirties Poets Auden, Macneice and Spender, who all went on writing (long) after the thirties
• Poetic transitions from the use of tight prosodic forms to free/r verse (Eliot)
• Transitions from countercultural poetic scenes (slam events) to major publishing houses (Kae Tempest)
• intermedial transitions : instapoetry, spoken word poetry, performance poetry, sound poetry (Caroline Bergvall)

Please send your 300-word long proposals and a short bio to Adrian Grafe (adrian.grafe@univ-artois.fr) and Claire Hélie (claire.helie@univ-lille.fr) by Dec 2.