SIEGFRIED SASSOON FELLOWSHIP

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING & CONFERENCE

  Saturday 8th September 2012

“I had never wanted to be a BA”

  A very successful event held on a beautiful late-summer's day in the magnificent  buildings and grounds of Radley College, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire 

11am               Arrival and registration/Coffee

11.30am          AGM of the Siegfried Sasoon Fellowship 

1pm                 Lunch  in the College dining room)

2pm                 Welcome and introduction – Meg Crane, Chair of the SSF

2.10pm            Speaker:          Michael Copp

                                                 “Siegfried Sassoon, Modernity, and Modernism”

2. 45pm           Speaker:          Gladys Mary Coles

                                                  “The Range of Reference in the Poetry of Siegfried Sassoon”

3.30pm            Afternoon tea 

4.00pm            Margi Blunden & Lottie Blunden lead a celebration of the publication of the Selected Letters of   Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden 1919-1967, edited by Carol Z Rothkopf (to be published by Pickering & Chatto in September 2012 in the Pickering Masters series)

4.45pm            Closing comments – Dennis Silk, CBE, President of the SSF

About our speakers:

Michael Copp was educated at the universities of London, Leicester, and Cambridge, and during his National Service worked as a translator in the Intelligence Corps.  He was for many years a tutor at the Institute of Continuing Education, Cambridge University, where he taught residential courses on the artistic response (art and literature) to 20th century conflict (the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the Second World War).  He is the editor of Cambridge Poets of the Great War: An Anthology and the author of numerous other works on the First World War Poets and the Imagist Poets.