This is just a quick reminder for those who might be planning on submitting a proposal to deliver a paper at 'Poetry in the Making': the 8th International Ted Hughes Conference, at Cardiff University, 28th-30th August 2018.
The deadline for the CfP is 31st March 2018, now only two weeks away.
Topics which papers could explore (but need not be limited to) include:
The literary afterlives of Hughes
Birthday Letters 20 years on
Dialogues with Hughes: literary friendships
Hughes and folklore
Hughes and medievalism
Hughes’s bestiary
Hughes’s prose
Hughes and tradition
Hughes and farming
Hughes’s writing for children
Hughes and place
Hughes’s manuscripts
Hughes and fishing
Hughes and Cambridge
Hughes and the Romantics
Hughes and translation
Hughes and visual culture
Hughes and Plath
Hughes and the environment
Hughes’s laureateship
For more details please see the conference website.