30th EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
University of Edinburgh
27-30 June 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE CONFERENCE VOLUME
Rethinking Modernist Internationalism:
The Cantos of Ezra Pound as a Global Epic
Given the range and quality of the papers addressing the theme of “The Legacy of The Cantos” at the 30th Ezra Pound International Conference, Edinburgh University, June 2023, the Conveners now plan to select and edit for publication a collection of essays (possibly two), developed from those papers. We especially encourage scholars to submit essays on a new volume theme, “The Cantos of Ezra Pound as a Global Epic.” We also invite those who were unable to attend the conference to consider submitting essays on this topic. Papers on other subjects read at the conference may also be sent, but they will likely be referred to the editors of the Pound Biennial, Volume 2. Please consider submitting your essay to the volume editors, once you review the guidelines below.
Our topic and focus
We propose a volume of essays focusing on The Cantos as a global poem establishing lines of communication between Europe, The United States, and Asia. These lines are geographical and historical, as well as aesthetic; they go along axes of communication in literary cultures, together with their sites of emergence and publication; philosophies and morals of East and West; economics, whether liberal or alternative; and regimes of power, democratic, monarchic, or imperial. These articulations reflect Pound’s inclusive approach to a great number of cultures of the world, coupled with a care for the specificities of locale and historical periods. Essays exploring the ways The Cantos speaks for or to a particular country or region, as well as comparative essays investigating the poem’s international approach more generally, will be welcome.
In a second dimension, as a mirror reflection to Pound’s attempt to trace, include, and express lineaments of the world in his poem, the volume editors also welcome essays on the various ways The Cantos has been received and understood in various parts of the globe. Our conference in June was especially strong in papers delineating postmodern and contemporary poets’ readings of the poem, as well as nationally inflected approaches to translation and editing. These studies reflect not only The Cantos’ sustaining power to respond to the world, but also the diverse ways it has been mirrored, interpreted, and propagated in a variety of countries.
All papers presented at the conference and reshaped for publication along our guidelines will be considered for the volume, or alternatively,
for the Pound Biennial, Volume 2, to be published by Clemson University Press.
Additional essays on the volume topic are also welcome.
Our guidelines:
- Papers may be revised and expanded, but submissions should be no more than 5000 words, and may be less.
- Citations and documentation should follow Chicago Style, using endnotes only– except that references to The Cantos of Ezra Poundmay be cited by Canto number and page number (in parentheses) from the 1996 New Directions edition. For an overview, see https://www.libs.uga.edu/ref/chicagostyle.pdf
- Please observe the following format: Font: Microsoft Word, Georgia 12, double spaced for text. Quotations of four lines or more should be double spaced and indented. Quotations of less than four lines may be incorporated in the text. Cite using endnotes; no Bibliography or Reference list is necessary.
- Title should be centered in above text, followed by Author’s Name.
- For Notes on Contributors, please include your own brief identification, such as professional title, institution, preferred address, and email address.
- As a scholarly book, the provision for “fair use” of quoted material applies, meaning that short quotations require only that the source be identified without explicit permission. Longer quotations and other materials, besides those by Pound, may need written permission from the source, if the essay is accepted.
Please send your completed essay to the editors as an email attachment in a WORD file, clearly labeled with your name and essay topic.
Roxana Preda
Walter Baumann at
Deadline for receipt of essays: 1 February 2024
Ezra Pound and the Legacy of The Cantos
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
EPIC-30 Co-Conveners
Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Andrew Taylor, University of Edinburgh
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
John Gery, University of New Orleans
EPIC Organizing Committee
University of Edinburgh:
Alex Thomson
Sam Brudell
Sian Cusack
EPIC Advisory Committee
Massimo Bacigalupo, University of Genoa
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
Diana Collecott. University of Durham
John Gery, University of New Orleans (Secretary)
Alan Golding, University of Louisville
David Moody, University of York
Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Viorica Patea, University of Salamanca
MONDAY, 26 JUNE 2023
11:00–12:00
Walking Tour, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh
Meeting Place:
Castle esplanade
EH1 2NG
14:00–16:00
Visit to National Library of Scotland
Meeting Place:
Library entrance on George IV Bridge
EH1 1EW
19:30–22:00
Informal Gathering
Meeting Place:
Teviot Place summer garden
EH8 9AG
TUESDAY, 27 JUNE 2023
University of Edinburgh
50 George Square
8:00-9:30: REGISTRATION, 50 George Square
Ground Floor Corridor, Screening Room
9:30-10.45
Session 1: Plenary
The Legacy of Ezra Pound
Screening Room, Ground Floor
Chair: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
How I Became a Poundian
Austin Briggs, Hamilton College
My Day with E.P.: 8 June 1969, Hamilton College
Alex Thomson, Head of School of Literatures Languages and Cultures
Welcome Address
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 2A: The Legacy of Pound in London: Imagism, Joyce and Vorticism
Project Room
Chair: Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts
Whit Frazier Peterson, University of Stuttgart
The Image Remains: Ezra Pound’s Des Imagistes One Hundred Years Later
Krista Rascoe, Tarrant Count College, Texas
Pound and Joyce: Constructing Images and Friendship
Hidetoshi Tomiyama, Meiji Gakuin University (Tokyo)
Images and Metaphors in the “Vorticism” Essay
Session 2B: Canonical Methods and Motives in The Cantos
Room G01
Chair: Giuliana Ferreccio, Università di Torino
Rosina Martucci, Università degli Studi di Salerno
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri and The Cantos by Ezra Pound: Textual, Linguistic and Cultural Interferences
Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University (Texas)
Ezra Pound’s Aristotle and the Scientific Poet
Karina Ibragimova, Lomonosov Moscow State University
“Go, my song” and “Pull down thy vanity”: Canto 36 and Canto 81
12:30-14:00: LUNCH Registration Area, Ground Floor
14:00-15:15
Session 3A: In the Company of the Elder Ezra
Project Room
Chair: Diana Collecott, University of Durham
Stefano Maria Casella, Università IULM, Milan
Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot: Juvenile Visions, Old Age Revelations
Mary Maxwell, Poet and Independent Scholar, Truro, Massachusetts
Ezra Pound and The Washington Spectator
Helen Carr, Goldsmiths, University of London
End to Torment and Winter Love
Session 3B: The Chinese Philosophers and The Cantos
Room G01
Chair: Kent Su, Shanghai International Studies University
Xiaocui Tan, Qilu University of Technology
Confucian Ethics in Ezra Pound’s Canto 13
Wenting Li, Sichuan International Studies University
The Integration of Translation and Creative Writing in Ezra Pound's Canto 13
Kenneth Haynes, Brown University
Ezra Pound’s Mencius
15:15-15:45: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:00
Session 4: Plenary
Pound in Print, Pound in the Canon
Project Room
Chair: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Rebecca Beasley, University of Oxford
A Draft of XXX Cantos: Pound, Cunard, and The Hours Press
Michael Coyle, Colgate University
Compleynt of Artemis: Dorothy Shakespear and the Purifications of the Third Folio
Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna
“Toward a bridge over worlds”: Ezra Pound’s Poetry as World Literature
17:00-17:30: PAUSE
17.30-18:30 Special Event
Reid Hall
Session 5: Nine Troubadour Songs (Haesternae Rosae), translated by Ezra Pound, set to music by Walter Morse Rummel
Introduction: Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Vocals: John Sweeney, baritone.
Piano: Philip
https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/Hesternae%20Rosae%20II/1_xr8xnwo4
RECITAL PROGRAM
CHANSSON DOIL MOT.
Arnaut Daniel.
[fin du XIIième siècle]
With words both clear and exquisite
I'll sing, for buds are blowing sweet
Where frail sprays meet
And flowers don
Their bold blazon
Where leafage springeth greenly
O'er shadowing the birds that sing
And cry through coppice seemly
Among the boughs their song is fleet
In shame's avoid my staves compete
Fine-filed and neat
with love's glaives on,
His way they run,
From him I may not turn me
Although he bring
great sorrowing
And though he proudly spurn me.
LO FERM VOLER
Arnaut Daniel.
[fin du XIIième siècle]
Firm desire that doth enter
My heart will not be hid by bolts nor nailing
Nor slanderers who loose their arms by lying
And dare not fight with even twigs and switches
Yea, by some jest, there where no uncle enters
I'll have my joy in garden or in chamber
I remember oft that chamber
Where, to my loss, I know that no man enters
But leaves me free as would a brother or uncle.
I shake in ev'ry part except my nails
As doth a child, for fear, before the switch
For fear I shall not come unto her arms.
QUANT L’HERBA FRESQ EL FUELL APAR
Bernart de Ventadour.
[milieu du XIIième siècle]
When grass starts green and flowers rise
A-leaf in garden and in close
And philomel in dulcet cries
And lifted notes his heart bestows.
Joy I've in him and in the flowers joy
E’en joy in me have I yet more employ
Hath joy in her in whom my joy is cast
She is such joy as hath all joys o’er past.
I love her so and so her prize,
I fear her and such thoughts oppose
That my poor words dare not arise,
Nor speech nor deeds my heart disclose.
And yet she knows the depth of my annoy
And, when she will, she will her grace employ
For God's love, Love, put now our love to test
For time goes by and we here waste his best.
LAS GRANS BEAUTATZ
Folquet de Romans (Rotmans)
[commencement du XIIIième siécle]
Her beauty and the fineness of her thought
And her true heart and all the food of praise.
And her high speech and the new-fangled ways
That colour hath when to her cheek 'tis brought
Give me the will for song and knowledge of it
Such were my song but such fears crowd above it
I dare not say 'tis you of whom I'm fain
And know not what shall count me loss or gain.
My love of her so secretly is wrought
That none save I and Love know love’s assay
And on my heart the flame in secrets preys,
Yet knowing this, you are not much distraught.
And yet I have such fear lest you reprove it,
That my heart scarce dares show you that you move it.
Yet if, when we're alone I daren't speak out
At least my songs shall say what I'm about.
TANT M’ABELIS
de Palazol.
[milieu du XIIième siècle.]
So pleaseth me joy and good love and song
And merriment, fine ways and gentle breeding.
Nor silver nor rich rent has earth for heeding
That I would prize above such gifts for long
These are the things where on my hope is cast
But she hath them so in her beck and call
That without her I can get none at all.
So have I wished her good and her advance
And so loved her and so wished to be with her
That if she'd send me off, I know I'd neither
Have strength nor sense to go, by any chance.
If I speak her great praise and hold it fast
In what I've said, no man can prove me wrong
For by her fact, I can prove true my song.
MERE AU SAUVEOUR
Williaume li Viniers.
[milieu du XIIIième siècle]
Maiden and Virgin loyal
In whom here Christ's God head.
As child glorious royal
Was conceived, born, nourished
Sweet maid be thy heart full fed
May his love and his grace allay
Thee this day,
when the Holy Ghost
By God's son honoured Thee most.
Lady imperious
O marvelous fleur-de-lys,
The holy fruit for us
Thou hast born specially
Ah, rose branch and sovran tree
Thou hast the flower, and fleet
Odour sweet
Whereby paradise
Shall be brought before our eyes.
LI GRANZ DESIRS
Li Cuens d’Angou.
[milieu du XIIIième siècle]
The great desire sheds fragrance o'er my thinking.
My thought for you, Madame, who'rt worth so much
Hath in it pain 'gainst which there is no blinking,
You have me made and have long held me such
Still my tormented heart lies in your clutch
Which naught shall loose save Death come nigh to touch.
Except thy grace should prove my pain's unlinking.
The great desire and the keen pain behind it
Have wrought on the true heart such honest grief
That as thou gavest joy thou now dost blind it
Ah, thou wert made for pleasure past belief.
And if thou grant me never sweet relief
And if thou grant me never thy relief.
Then mercy's hid where I shall never find it.
MAINTA IEN ME MAL RAZONA
[fin du XIIième siècle.]
Many people here miscall me.
That I sing so seldom now,
But that fair whose thoughts befall me
I know not how long, nor how,
Hath bound my thoughts so woefully
That the chains thereon appall me,
And I’ve lost all joy and glee
So doth ill fortune gall me.
She hath banished all my pleasure
And is honoured naught by this,
With some well turned lies and leisure
She might well have wrought my bliss,
Such long delay before the kiss
Overfloweth folly's measure
And for payment cries I wis,
Shame’s all I get to treasure.
A L’ENTRADE
Chanson à danser
de la fin du XIIième siècle.
When cometh the clear time in, eya!
That our joys we may begin, eya!
To stir up the jealous men, eya!
Is our queen to show again
what gifts she has for play
Jealousy Ha-a-i-e be gone
Go we now, so we now a dancing our own way, our own way.
Ha! ha! here doth come the king! eya!
What a temper he doth bring! eya!
Bids us dancers break our ring! eya!
Lest his lady have her fling;
His April go a Maying.
Jealousy, Ha-a-i-e be gone
Go we now, go we now, a dancing our own way, our own way.
But our sweetest lady here, eya!
Hath of old men little care, eya!
And for light-foot bachelors, eya!
Keepeth she that heart of hers, Heig-ho!
what merry straying!
Jealousy Ha-a-i-e, be gone
Go we now, go we now, a dancing our own way, our own way.
WEDNESDAY, 28 JUNE 2023
9:00-17:00: REGISTRATION
Second Floor, Project Room
9:30-10.45
Session 6A: Pound's Legacy of Friends and Family
Project Room
Chair: Andy Trevathan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Hannu Riikonen, University of Helsinki
Jim or Mr. Joyce? Names, Titles and Forms of Address in The Cantos
Stephen Wilson, Universidade de Coimbra
“…the fire bucket, 1806 Barre Mass’chusetts…” and what that entails: The Testamentary Poetics of Ezra Pound’s Cantos.
Session 6B: Modalities for reading The Cantos
Room G01
Chair: Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Edward McLaren, University of Edinburgh
Pound’s Spinning Top
Youngmin Kim, Linnaeus University/Dongguk University/Hangzhou Normal University
“Ezra Pound‘s The Cantos and World Literature Project: Distant Reading of Scale Up/Down from a Global Perspective”
Louis de Beaumont, Independent Scholar
POUNDIAN / A Digital Approach to The Cantos
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 7A: Paradigm Shifts and The Cantos: Mauberley and Noh
Project Room
Chair: Andrew Houwen, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
Timothy J. Cook, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Modernizing Western Epic: Yeats, Pound, and H. D.
Akiko Manabe, Shiga University
Blindness and Light in Pound’s paradiso terrestre: Another Study on Noh in The Cantos, especially Kagekiyo
Yoshiko Kita, Chuo University
The Cantos and Ezra Pound’s Translation of Noh
Session 7B:
Pound’s Legacy I: The European Heritage
Room G01
Chair: Michael Coyle, Colgate University
Charlotte Estrade, Université Paris Nanterre
Pound’s Legacy in France: The Pivotal Role of the Cahiers de L’Herne (1966 – 1997)
Emanuele Zoppellari Perale, University of Turin
Poets in Paradise: Andrea Zanzotto’s Reading of Pound’s “Paradisiacal” Cantos
Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca
Make It New and the Spanish Novísimos: Pound’s Legacy in Spain
12:30-14:00: LUNCH BREAK (on your own)
14:00-15:15
Session 8A: Eurasia and The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Ryan Johnson, University of Sydney
“And the russe”: Semi-Asiatic Russian in The Cantos
Yuxin Zhang, University of Sydney
“To the Odes to escape abstract yatter”: Shijing in The Cantos
Mark Byron, University of Sydney
“The Slide of Byzantium”: The Cantos’ Other Empire
Session 8B: Pound’s Legacy II: The Scots and the Canadians
Room G01
Chair: Rhett Forman, Tarleton State University (Texas)
Giacomo Bianchino, Graduate Center, City University of New York
The School of Ezra Pound and MacDiarmid’s Methods
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Scots Poundian: The Criticism and Poetry of G.S. Fraser
Stewart Donavan, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Ezra Pound’s Legacy in the North Country
15:15-15:45: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:00
Session 9A: The Cantos and the Green World
Project Room
Chair: Stephen Romer, Brasenose College, University of Oxford
Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Finding Meaning in the Balance: Vorticism, Machine Age and the Ecocritical Breakthrough in The Cantos
Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University of Pennsylvania
Gathering from the Air a Live Tradition: Nietzsche, Pound and Kenneth White
Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba
Being in Being: Ontological Attention in The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Session 9B: Pound’s Legacy III: The Asian Heritage
Room G01
Chair: Matz McLaughlin, Tokyo University of Science
Duncan Poupard, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Decline of the “Ideogram” After The Cantos
Andrew Houwen, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University
“Your Sacred Words”: The Cantos in the Poetry of Takahashi Mutsuo
Kent Su, Shanghai International Studies University
Poundian Legacy in Contemporary Chinese Poetry: Yang Lian’s Concentric Circles
17:00-17:30: RECEPTION Project Room
17:30-19:00
Special Event EPIC Poetry Reading
Project Room
Chair: Jeff Grieneisen, State College of Florida
Poets:
Silvia Falsaperla
Rhett Forman
John Gery
Jeff Grieneisen
Tony Lopez
Mary Maxwell
Matz McLaughlin
Biljana Obradovic
Stephen Romer
and others
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
THURSDAY, 29 JUNE 2023
9:00-11:00: REGISTRATION Project Room
9:30-10.45
Session 10A: Pound and the Far-Right
Project Room
Chair: Anderson Araujo, University of British Columbia, Kelowna
Christian Goodwillie and Steve Yao, Hamilton College
New Evidence from the Archive: Ezra Pound, Ettore Rella, and Fascism
Andrea Rinaldi, University of Bergen
“From the wreckage of Europe”: The Legacy of The Cantos in Italian Post-War Far-Right
Julius Greve, University of Oldenburg
Broadcasting Reaction: Politics and Aesthetics in Ezra Pound and Kanye West
Session 10B: Pound’s Legacy in the Art of Translation
Room 2.39
Chair: Martina Kolb, Susquehanna University of Pennsylvania
Matz McLaughlin, Tokyo University of Science
Pound and Blackburn: Ezra Pound’s Legacy as Translator and Mentor
Joanna Trzeciak Huss, Kent State University
The Bridge to Pound: Eva Hesse, The Cantos, and Tadeusz Różewicz’s Pound Tetrology
Espen Grønlie, Oslo International School of Philosophy, Rome
Scandinavian Translations of The Cantos
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 11A: Metaphysical Pound and The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Peter Liebregts, Leiden University
Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College
Ezra Pound, Explainer: Guide to Kulchur
James Dowthwaite, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena
“All done by conversation”: Vienna and the Salon Style of Cantos XXXV and XXXVIII
Giuliana Ferreccio, Università di Torino
Ezra Pound and Richard Saint Victor: The Eye and the Mind
Session 11B: Pound’s Legacy IV: The American Heritage
Room 2.39
Chair: Viorica Patea, Universidad de Salamanca
Daniela Daniele, Università degli studi di Udine
Pound and Zukofsky; An Unprejudiced Transatlantic Dialogue
Michael Kindellan, University of Sheffield
The Cantos and the “New American Poetry”
Tetsuo Koga, Osaka Metropolitan University
Poetic Justice and its Consequences: The Case of Pound and Amiri Baraka
12:30-13:30: LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
13:30-17:30 Excursion to Abbotsford
The bus for Abbotsford departs from Potterrow, at Bristo Square, next to McEwan Hall. The bus will be waiting. Participants must be at the bus door by 13.20 to join the excursion.
Price per person: £32 (Advance reservation required)
FRIDAY, 30 JUNE 2023
9:00-9:30: REGISTRATION
9:30-10.45
Session 12A: Post-War Pound and the Avant-Garde
Project Room
Chair: Robert von Hallberg, Claremont McKenna College
Felix Marzillier, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities
The Poetics of Palimpsest: The German Avant-Garde Composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann and the Musical Legacy of The Cantos
Courtney Ruffner Grieneisen, State College of Florida
“Razzista, Fascista, Etccetera”: Pound’s Influence on Pasolini
Francesca Cadel, University of Calgary
Ezra Pound’s Presence in Pier Paolo Pasolini Posthumous Novel, Petrolio (1992).
Session 12B: Pound and Postmodern Pedagogy
Room 2.39
Chair: Mark Byron, University of Sydney
Jo Brantley Berryman, California Institute of the Arts
Understanding Pound: A Paradigm Shift – McLuhan, Eisenstein, Fenollosa, and La Pia
Andy Trevathan, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
The Elephant in the Room: Teaching Pound’s Poetry
10:45-11:15: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:30
Session 13: Plenary: The Classical Legacy in The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova
Katerina (Kathryn) Stergiopoulou, Princeton University
Learning “a little greek” in the Late Cantos
Peter Liebregts, Leiden University
Pound, Horace and the Question of Legacy
12:30-14:00: LUNCH Ground Floor
14:00-15:15
Session 14: Plenary 3: Readings in The Cantos
Project Room
Chair: Ron Bush, Oxford University
Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
Canto 49 – A Look from the Other Side
Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Composition with History as a Legacy: Reading the Historical Accounts of Hideyoshi in Canto 58
Massimo Bacigalupo, Università di Genova
Between Kung and Eleusis: Canto 106
15:15-15:45: TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:45-17:00
Session 15: Thy True Heritage: The Future of Pound Studies
An Open Discussion
Project Room
Chairs: Mark Byron, University of Sydney
John Gery, University of New Orleans
Akitoshi Nagahata, Nagoya University
Roxana Preda, University of Edinburgh
17:00-17:10: PAUSE
17:10-18:00
Session 16: Business Meeting
Project Room
Chairs: Walter Baumann, University of Ulster
John Gery, University of New Orleans
19:00-21:00
BANQUET South Hall in the Pollock Halls complex
This location is about a 20-minute walk from 50 George Square. It can also be reached by bus: A 3-minute walk from 50 George Square to St. Patrick’s Square bus stop. Take busses #2, 30, or 33 south to the Commonwealth Pool (3 stops). From that stop, it is a 3-minute walk.
Address: 18 Holyrood Park Rd, Edinburgh EH16 5AR
SATURDAY, 1 JULY 2023
POST-CONFERENCE EXCURSION
Glencoe – Ben Nevis – Loch Ness
7:45 am:
Meeting point will be the same as for the Abbotsford trip. Bus stop on Potterow, at Bristo Square.
Price per person: £85 (Advance reservation required)
One-day excursion from Edinburgh to Loch Ness, along the Kelpies, Stirling, and the Wallace Monument, a brief stop at Kilmahog, a stop at historic Glencoe, and a drive by the Great Glen pass under the shadow of Ben Nevis to Fort Augustus on Loch Ness (lunch on your own). After a 50-minute boat trip on Loch Ness (included in price), the bus will return through Laggan, Blair, and Pitlochry to Edinburgh.
8:00 pm: Return to Edinburgh
Note: To fill in the registration form, copy it from this webpage and paste it into a Word document.
30TH EZRA POUND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
26 June-2 July 2023
REGISTRATION FORM
Please fill out this form and send by email attachment by 1 May 2023 to both
Name(s):
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(City, State, Country, Postal/Zip Code)
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REQUIRED PAYMENT: Covers use of conference facilities at University of Edinburgh, Conference Presentations, City tour, National Library visit, two lunches, tea and coffee breaks, Wednesday Reception, Concert, Poetry Reading, and program materials.
No. of Persons: Payment Amount
___Participants: £100/$120/€113 (Full fee: £130/$155/€145) with or without paper _____
___Partners/Companions: £75/$90/€85/ (Full fee: £100/$120/€113) _____
___Graduate Students: £75/$90/€85/ (Full fee: £100/$120/€113) _____
OPTIONAL EVENTS/PAYMENTS:
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___Mon, 26 June: Tour of the Royal Mile/Tour Times: ___10am ___12:30pm 0.00
___Mon, 26 June, 2:00-3:30 pm: Visit Modernist Coll., Scottish National Library 0.00
___Mon, 26 June, 7:00-10 pm: Pre-conference gathering, to be announced Cash Bar
___Tues, 27 June, 8:30 am-6:00 pm: Registration, Opening Plenary, Luncheon 0.00
___Tues, 27 June, 5:30 pm: Concert: Rummel/Pound Compositions: John Sweeney 0.00
___Wed, 28 June, 5:00-7:00 pm: Reception/Poetry Reading 0.00
___Thurs, 29 June, 1:30-7:00 pm: Trip to Abbotsford (Home of Walter Scott):(£32/$39/€36) ____
___Fri, 30 June, 7:00-10:00 pm: EPIC Reception/Banquet (£70/$84/€78 per person) ____
___Sun, 2 July, 1:00 pm: Post-EPIC Brunch/Luncheon in Edinburgh (TBD) Cash Bar
SUBTOTAL, page one: (Circle one: $ / € / £ ) ____
POST-EPIC EXCURSION (optional)
___Sat, 1 July, 8:00 am– 8:00 pm: One-day excursion from Edinburgh to Loch Ness, by Kelpies, Stirling and Wallace Monument, a brief stop at Kilmahog, a stop at historic Glencoe, and a drive by Great Glen pass under the shadow of Ben Nevis, to Fort Augustus on Loch Ness (lunch). After a 50-minute boat trip on Loch Ness (included in price), the bus will return through Laggan, Blair, and Pitlochry to Edinburgh
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The discounted early registration fee £100/$120/€113 (Graduate Students/Partners:
£75/$90/€85) due by 1 May 2023. (Full rate fees accepted 2 May–30 June 2023)
To pay directly to UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH:
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3. Click on one of the fees
4. The dinner and the excursions can now be ticked
5. Click on Confirm the items
6. Go to Basket
7. Register with your email address
8. Create a password
9. Follow directions for submitting payment.
Paying this way by credit card should not cost a separate fee, other than the conversion rate. [Note: The University of Edinburgh system of Registration requires that each person has to create a separate account, i.e. partners cannot be included with the participants, so each one attending needs to complete a separate payment]. If you need assistance with this method of payment, please contact
To pay by PayPal: (Full rate fees accepted 2 May until 20 June 2023)
Please go to www.paypal.com to log in to your account. (If you don’t have an account, click “Sign Up,” choose “Personal Account,” and fill in the relevant details.) Then:
1. After you log in, you will be brought to your Account Summary screen (also accessible by going to https://www.paypal.com/myaccount/summary/). On the right side of the screen, click “Send.” In the field under “Send money to,” enter
2. In the screen that pops up, please select “Sending to a friend” to avoid fees being assessed to the EPIC committee.
3. In the next screen, type in the dollar amount you are sending, click on “USD” in the drop-down menu below that, then scroll down and click “Continue.”
4. The next screen will ask how you want to pay, via the payment information you entered when you signed up for an account. If you're paying domestically, and using your own PayPal balance or bank account, you won't be charged a fee. If you're paying domestically, and using a credit or debit card, you will be charged a fee. If you're paying internationally, you will be charged a fee. Once you have chosen your method of payment, click “Next.”
5. This will bring you to the final screen, which will show you the amount of any fees to be assessed and give you the option to change your payment method. Once you've verified these details, click “Send Payment Now.” For PayPal's full fee breakdown, go to: https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/paypal-fees.
To pay by check in dollars: Please mail a printed copy of the Registration Form together with a check or money order for the total amount in U.S. dollars made out to “Ezra Pound International Conference” (or “John Gery”) by 1 May 2023 (Full rate fees accepted until 20 June 2023) to:
John Gery/Ezra Pound International Conference
Department of Language & Literature
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70148-2315 USA
NOTE: However you pay, please make sure your name appears on your payment, so EPIC can identify it . If not, please send a copy of confirmed payment (as name appears on payment) to
Thank You!
ARRIVING IN EDINBURGH
The conference will take place in the English Department of the University of Edinburgh, at 50 George Square.
If you fly to Edinburgh:
From the airport to the city, expect a 25-30 min travel time.
When you go out of arrivals, it will be at one of the doors shown on the map, but most likely at the one between points H and G; turn left and walk along the terminal building looking for the signs. You will see the stops for various busses on your right-hand side. Further right, you will see a tower with a car park.
By Bus – The bus you need to take you to Edinburgh city centre is called Airlink 100 (point A on the map) . You can buy your ticket on the bus from the driver, using your bank card or cash. The cost for a single ticket is £4.50. You can also purchase an open-ended return ticket for £7.50. Airlink will start from its stop at the airport every ten minutes and the ride will take approx. 25 minutes, depending on traffic. Its final stop will be opposite the Waverley Train Station.
By tram – Trams are highly visible once you reach the A point where the Airlink 100 bus stop is. They depart every 7 minutes, between 7am and 7pm, and every 15 minutes outwith these hours, with an end-to-end journey of just 30 minutes. A single fare will cost £6.50; the ticket will need to be purchased at the kiosk on the tram platform. See point 7 on the map.
The tram takes you right along Princes Street to Waverley Station. See the route here.
See tram ticket options here.
By taxi – In order to get to the East terminus taxi rank, you’ll have to walk under a covered passageway next to the trams platform, as shown on the map at point 3. The ride will take approximately 25 minutes to the city centre, and cost around £20-30.
If you come to Edinburgh BY TRAIN.
Edinburgh is very well connected to all parts of the UK. Trains to and from London and Glasgow run every half hour. The main railway station of Edinburgh, WAVERLEY STATION, is on Princes Street in the city centre. Taxis are available at the exits on Market Street and Waverley Bridge.
If you plan to come by train, it is advisable to buy your ticket well in advance, to ensure a better price. Book it on Trainline.
SIGHTSEEING IN EDINBURGH
EDINBURGH CASTLE
Address: Castlehill, Edinburgh
Opening hours 9.30 – 18.00 (last entry 17.00)
It is recommended to set aside at least 2 hours to see the main attractions at Edinburgh Castle.
Book your ticket in advance to avoid the queues and ensure a better price.
Book tickets online here: Edinburgh Castle
PALACE OF HOLYROOD HOUSE
This is the official royal residence in Edinburgh.
Address: Canongate, Edinburgh
Opening hours; 9.30 – 18.30. Last admission: 16.30.
29 June – 7 July 2023 - Palace closed
Book tickets online here: Holyrood Palace
HOLYROOD PARK (ARTHUR'S SEAT)
Best route of access from 50 George Square is to go towards Pollock’s Halls and head straight for the hills. Then follow to the right, on Queen’s Drive up and around the hill. The walk will bring you to Holyrood Palace and the Scottish Parliament, at the bottom of the Royal Mile.
ART MUSEUMS
SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY
Address: The Mound, Edinburgh
Opening hours: 10.00 – 17.00
Free entrance.
MODERN ONE
Address: 73 Belford Rd., Edinburgh
Opening hours: 10.00-17.00
Free entrance.
MODERN TWO
Address: 75 Belford Rd.
Opening hours: 10.00-17.00
Free entrance.
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN (RBG)
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh has two entrances:
West Gate on Arboretum Place (EH3 5NZ)
East Gate on Inverleith Row (EH3 5LP).
Bus: The West Gate (John Hope Gateway visitor centre) on Arboretum Place is served by Lothian Buses 29, 42 and 24 via Stockbridge and the Majestic Bus Tour (0131 220 0770). The Garden's East Gate entrance on Inverleith Row is served by bus routes 8, 23 and 27 from the City Centre.
From 50 George Square, the best links are bus 8 for the East Gate (stop: RBG Inverleith) and bus 29 (stop: Dean Park Street) for the West Gate.
Time to get there ca. 20-25 mins.
Note: Shop and café are near the West Gate. Bus stop is nearer at the East Gate.
Opening hours: 10am - 6pm (last entry 5.15pm)
Entrance to the gardens is free.
ROSSLYN CHAPEL
Address: Roslin village
There is a regular bus service to and from Roslin village. From Edinburgh city centre, look for a Lothian Service 37 and check that it says ‘Penicuik/ Deanburn’ at the front of the bus (if in doubt, ask the driver!). The journey from the city centre will take around 45 to 60 minutes and there are stops on Princes Street (shop side) or North Bridge. The bus comes into Roslin village and the Chapel is just a few minutes’ walk from the bus stop at the Original Rosslyn Hotel.
The bus no 37 stop nearest 50 George Square is at Patrick Square. The bus stop to get off is Original Rosslyn Hotel. See bus 37 route here.
As the bus drive is rather long, a viable option would be to share a taxi. Book online.
Opening hours: 9.00-17.00. Last admission 15.30.
ACCOMMODATION IN EDINBURGH
There is a wide variety of places to sleep in Edinburgh. Our conference site at 50 George Square is in the very heart of the Old Town, some 5 minutes' walk to Royal Mile. It is situated at the corner of a small square park that students use for lounging, enjoying the sun, having their lunches and conversing peripatetically. If they care to make a few extra steps, they will find themselves on the Meadows, where they can run, have picnics, bring the family for a Sunday brunch, play tennis and golf.
Websites to check for accommodation near 50 George Square:
This website lists hotels near the university and our conference site. Once you are on the hotel webpage, please change the standard dates of visit at the top to put in your personal ones. Pay attention to the distances given under the name of the hotel. Use the map feature in the upper left corner, to give you an orientation as to the placement of the hotel.
The webpage lists the very best places available near the university. If you see “Quartermile” in the description, be sure that what you will get is a luxury room at 5 minutes’ walk away from our conference site. To give you an idea, on the map above, "Residence Inn by Marriott" is in the Quartermile.
This website is very inclusive, as apart from hotel rooms, it lists apartments and hostel rooms to rent in a variety of price levels.
Our university service provider, Edinburgh First, manages three hotels near the university. Their main advantage is proximity to Arthur’s Seat, one of the most picturesque places in town. Walking distance from our conference site to Scott Hotel and Scholar Hotel is ca. 18 minutes. KM Hotels and Apartments is 6 minutes’ walk away.
See also the individual websites to each hotel managed by Edinburgh First:
Here you will find more affordable places to sleep, not far from our conference site. Looking at the map on the webpage, get an orientation by searching for the green square next to a larger green space. Our conference is in the upper corner of the green square.
This is the place to look for inexpensive places to sleep in Edinburgh. Pay particular attention to the distance from the hostel to our conference site. On the site of booking.com you will also find university rooms at very reasonable prices. These will be at the Pollock Halls, some 18 minutes' walking distance to our conference site.