The Ted Hughes Network have issued a call for papers for a symposium, jointly organised with the British Library, entitled Ted Hughes’s Expressionism: Visionary Subjectivity, to be held at the British Library on Friday 15th September 2023.
As the Call for Papers explains:
This symposium is designed to explore and investigate the claim that Hughes’s most characteristic, distinctive, and innovative work—wherein lies the weight of his claim to be regarded as a major poet and an internationally significant artist—is essentially Expressionist, characterised by a rejection of objectivity in representation in favour of a Visionary Subjectivity that draws on inner life and imagination to transform and distort content, deploying abstraction, typologies and symbols to shape presentations in an essentially didactic manner.
Full details on the Symposium can be found here on the Call for Papers, and the deadline for submission is Friday 12th May 2023.