Colloquium Fernando Pessoa’s English Poetry

Date: July 3,  2014
Venue: Casa Fernando Pessoa
Organisation: Patrício Ferrari (CEC)

Programme:

Session nr. 1 (3 p.m.-5.15 p.m.):
Patricio Ferrari: On Pessoa’s English Poetry: From Georg Rudolf Lind to the Present
João Dionísio: Fernando Pessoa’s English Poems and Poetry in English
Manuel Portela: “As to a child, I talked my heart asleep”: uma análise lexical, sintática e prosódica
Silvia McNeill: Pessoa’s The Mad Fiddler: sensationism in English

Patricio Ferrari in conversation with Christian Kjelstrup

Presentation of the recent edition: Fernando Pessoa. No Matter What We Dream: Selected English Poetry, ed. by Patricio Ferrari and Jerónimo Pizarro, Lisbon: Tell-a-Story, 2014.
 
Session nr. 2 (6.15 p.m.-8.30 p.m.):
Stefan Helgesson: Pessoa, Anon and Durban: Reconstructing a forgotten Context
Carlos Pittella: Kropotkine, Kitchener, Chamberlain – and the political Pessoa
Susan Brown: The poetry of Alexander Search:  searching for what?
Mariana de Castro: Romantic Modernists: Pessoa & Lord Byron
Richard Zenith: Pessoa, Shelley and the Spirit of Prometheus

Dinner at Flagrante Delitro Restaurant – Casa Fernando Pessoa.