Elizabeth Bishop in Glasgow: A Symposium

“Elizabeth Bishop in Glasgow: A Symposium” will bring scholars, students, writers, musicians, translators and readers from around the world together to explore the work of American poet, Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79). The Glasgow location offers, for the first time, an opportunity to consider Bishop’s work in a Scottish-Atlantic critical, cultural and historical context and to explore the profound influence of Scottish poets such as Robert Burns – whose poems Bishop was familiar with from childhood – on her own style. Equally, the Symposium will consider the influence that Bishop and her contemporaries had on Scottish writers up to the present day.

Cover image: George Stubbs' "The Duke of Richmond's Bull Moose" (1770) © The Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

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