Literary perspectives
The Physiology of Literature: Peter Goldsworthy, Australia
The Power of Poetry: From Petrarch to the Present: Anne Hudson Jones, Texas, USA
Wordpharmacy: Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Poetry arising from life under threat: C. K. Stead, New Zealand
Jiři Wolker: poetry and pathology: Susan Reynolds, British Library, London, UK
A. D. Hope’s anatomy lesson: Michael Hulse, University of Warwick, UK
William Carlos Williams: GP and poet: Christina Britzolakis, University of Warwick, UK
The Romantic ego in medical poetry: Michael Hulse, University of Warwick, UK
Surgical metaphor in the poetry of Sylvia Plath: David Francis, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
The rest of me here on the bed: landscapes of pain in Dorothy Molloy’s cancer poetry: Luz Mar González-Arias, University of Oviedo, Spain
‘On Ground curiously neutral’. Community, Critique and the NHS in Philip Larkin’s The Building: Natalie Jones, University of Warwick, UK
Pure poetry, 19th century notions of hygiene, Charles Baudelaire, and Stéphane Mallarmé: Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Venus heart: La Specola’s waxworks in verse: Kelley K Swain, Imperial College London, UK.
The death of Hamlet’s father: John Riddington Young, Bideford, UK
Hospital geography: incarnations of the poet-patient: Can Sönmez, University of Warwick, UK
Metaphors of movement: poetry and mental health: Alan Beattie, Lancaster, UK
The Elves and the Poem-maker: Stephen Wilson, Oxford, UK
Contemporary English-language poetry on illness: ‘My main job is to translate / pain into tales they can tolerate // in another language’: Jane Dowson, de Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Surgical metaphor in the poetry of Sylvia Plath: David Francis, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Dissident forms: anorexia nervosa as a site of resistance in recent poetry from Ireland: Luz Mar González-Arias, University of Oviedo, Spain
Acts of naming disabilities in contemporary poetry: Eleanor Ward, University of Manchester, UK
Wordpharmacy: Jens Lohfert Jørgensen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Metastatic Metaphors: Poetry, Cancer Imagery, and the Imagined Self: Lois Leveen, USA
The Healing Power of Words: Community and Communitas in Women’s poetry about HIV/AIDS from Southern Africa: Sorcha Gunne, University of Warwick, UK
The Poet as Witness: Poetry as Mythic Construction: Sheri Reda, USA
Murmur, Beat, Silence: Toward a Cardiography of Poems: Catherine Belling, USA
The Physiology of Poetry: Eric Elshtain, USA
Phenomenological Poetry: Navigating the Frontier of Performance, Lived Experience and Therapy in Jess Thom’s Production of Beckett’s “Not I”: Emily Chester, UK
Phineas Fletcher and the Purple Island: John Riddington Young, Bideford, UK
Issues in identifying and assessing a corpus of medical poetry: Michael Hulse, University of Warwick, UK
Literary perspectives on medicine and healing: Fran Bigman, USA; Anne Hudson Jones, Texas, USA, Michael Hulse, UK and Rafael Campo, Harvard Medical School, USA
The Brain as a Metaphor Making Machine: Michael Salcman, USA
Blood Debts: The Uneasy Combination of Hepatitis C and Poetry: Luz Mar Gonzales-Arias, Oviedo, Spain
These Palimpsests of Time: Poetry, Psychoanalysis and Ageing: Elizabeth Barry, University of Warwick, UK
The purposes served by “medical” poetry
