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EVENT DATE: SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
St Antony’s College, Oxford

Children in Troubled Worlds Conference 2008

‘between the words’

The eighth Children in Troubled Worlds’ conference was a unique experience. Two Oxford based poets, Tom Paulin and Bernard O’Donoghue offered a poetry masterclass,exploring the evocation of meaning in and between words in poetry.

Pamela Sorensen presented a paper on exploring aspects of learning from Dr Meltzer in person and in his writing with reference to the film “The Story of the Weeping Camel”.  Attendees were encouraged to view this film before the conference. Additional speakers included Meg Harris Williams, writer, artist, and psychoanalytic thinker, Rosemary Duffy and Gerry Byrne.

Conference chair: Margaret Rustin.

Tom Paulin / Bernard O’Donoghue

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Programme:

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Welcome by Kate Carling and Margaret Rustin
(click ‘play’ icon) .

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Gerry Byrne – Brief paper ‘lost and found in translation‘
(podcast here)

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Meg Harris Williams – ‘The growing germ of thought: the influence on Bion of the Romantic poets’
(podcast here)

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Poetry Master-class: - Tom Paulin, Bernard O’Donoghue and Meg Harris Williams
(podcast here)

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Rosemary Duffy ‘The  Profane and the Poetic’
(podcast unavailable as it contains clinical material)

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Pamela Sorensen – ‘You had to be there – finding Meltzer on the page’
(podcast here)

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Plenary
(podcast here)

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Closing words by Ellie Roberts
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Poetry Master-class:

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds, raised in Belfast, educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford, Tom has published 8 collections of poetry, as well as Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt’s Radical Style and most recently, Crusoe’s Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most recent collection of poems is The Road to Inver (2004). Well known for his appearances on the BBC’s Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.

Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Co. Cork, Ireland, he is a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, where he teaches Medieval English. He has published 4 collections of poetry; The Weakness (1991), Gunpowder, winner of the 1995 Whitbread Award for Poetry, Here Nor There (1999) and Outliving (2003).

Meg Harris Williams is a writer and artist with a lifelong psychoanalytic education. She read English at Cambridge and Oxford and her first book to marry poetic and psychoanalytic epistemologies was Inspiration in Milton and Keats (1981). Since then she has continued to write on the poetic origins of psychoanalytic thinking and the aesthetic implications for psychoanalysis, in many books and articles including A Strange Way of Killing (1987), The Apprehension of Beauty (1988), The Chamber of Maiden Thought (1992), The Vale of Soulmaking: the post Kleinian model of the mind (2005). Her most recent books are The Aesthetic Development: the poetic spirit of psychoanalysis and Bion’s Dream (forthcoming Karnac 2009). She is editor of The Harris Meltzer Trust

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