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A one-day conference organised by The Centre for Modern European  Literature, University of Kent, in collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute Seminar Room, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 20th November 2009Organisers: Prof. Peter Read and Dr. Ben Hutchinson, University of Kent It is striking how many leading European poets of the 20th century  turned to sculpture as an art form which they saw as analogous to poetry. Rilke  on Rodin, Pound on Gaudier-Brzeska, and Francis Ponge, Jacques Dupin and Yves  Bonnefoy on Giacometti are just five examples of poets who sought to measure  their poetics against a sculptural aesthetic. Yet what is the common interest of  modern poetry and sculpture in processes of poeisis, of making? Pound called  sculpture "peculiarly a thing of the twentieth century" but what is the  precise force of the analogy between poetry and sculpture in this period?This conference seeks to explore the relationship between modern poetry  and sculpture from a European perspective. Can differences in emphasis and  approach be discerned which one could ascribe to differing cultural traditions  across Europe or is there rather a striking homogeneity between  the many poetic approaches to sculpture? Does the response to sculpture by poets  represent an enhancement of, or an escapist digression from, their own poetics?In response to such questions, the conference will adopt a doubly  comparative approach, exploring both the general relationship between poetry and  sculpture in the 20th century and its specific manifestations in different times  and locations.The programme will include the following speakers and  topics :Prof. Mark Antliff (Professor of Art History, Duke University): "Anarchist Vortex/Sculptural Nominalism: Gaudier-Brzeska and Pound"Prof. Roger Cardinal (Emeritus Professor of Literary and Visual Studies,  University of Kent): "Jacques Dupin and an alternative voicing of space: a  poet's response to Giacometti and Chillida"Dr. Charlie Louth  (Fellow in German, The Queen's College, Oxford): "Rilke, Rodin and the  Syntax of Surface"Alastair Noble (sculptor; Assistant Professor,  Department of Art, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania): "Mallarmé's  Shadow"Prof. Eric Robertson (Professor of Modern French Literary and  Visual Culture, Royal Holloway, University of London): "Arp's Concretions"Dr. Sarah Turner (Teaching Fellow in History of Art, University of  York): "The poetics of permanence: poetry, carving and letter-cutting in the  20th century"James Wishart (King’s College, University of London): "Olivier Larronde's encounter with Giacometti: the historicity of poetic  forms"The conference will close with a panel discussion open to all  speakers and delegates.The fee for this conference will be £10/£5  concessions and will include lunch and refreshments.To register for  attendance at this conference please contact Kirstie Gregory:kirstie@henry-moore.ac.uk, 0113 246  7467. 