The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century
About
A one-day conference on the Modernist Long Poem today, held at Northeastern University London on Friday 24 October 2025. (Please note change from the originally advertised date of 25 Oct.)The keynote address will be by Professor Steven Matthews (University of Reading), on ‘Logics of the Imagination: Structure in Eliot, Aldington, and H.D.’.
The event will also see the launch of a new, centenary edition of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest (Renard Press), edited by Michael Copp and Elizabeth Vandiver.
Attenders will need to be matched to their names on the guest list by presenting photo ID; this can be a photograph or a photocopy (this is a requirement of NUL).
The venue is confirmed as Devon House, E1W 1JP (NOT Portsoken House as previously advised).
Location
Northeastern University London
Devon House, St Katharine's Way, London, E1W 1JP