emagazine Poems of the Decade Conference (12.12 2023, Friends House, London)
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Date - 12 Dec 2023
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Availability -
Fully booked
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Price - £22 per student
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Location - Friends House, London
Programme & Speakers
The conference will begin at 10.25am and finish by 3.15pm.
10.25am | EMMA BARKER Emma welcomes you to the Conference. |
10.30-11.15am | DALJIT NAGRA Daljit reads and discusses 'Look We Have Coming to Dover!' comparing it to 2 other poems from the Poems of the Decade Edexcel selection. |
11.20-12pm | BARBARA BLEIMAN FROM THE ENGLISH & MEDIA CENTRE
This session will provide an opportunity for students to try out a guided activity that brings together a little cluster of set poems with some unseen ones. It will demonstrate how big picture thinking can offer fruitful angles for the comparison of poems that is at the heart of the EDEXCEL exam.
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12-12.25pm |
Break |
12.25-1.05pm | SIMON ARMITAGE Simon Armitage reads and discusses his poem 'Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass' and Helen Dunmore’s 'To My Nine-Year-Old Self'. |
1.05-2pm |
LUNCH |
2.05-2.30pm | ROS BARBER Ros Barber reads and discusses her poem 'Material'. |
2.35-3.10pm | RAYMOND ANTROBUS & VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY Raymond Antrobus and Victoria Adukwei Bulley in conversation, sharing and comparing some of their work. |
3.15pm | EMMA BARKER Emma Barker brings the Conference to a close. |
Getting to the Conference
Train
The closest train stations are Euston and Kings Cross.
Tube (underground)
Tube stations within a 5 to 15-minute walk include: Euston, Euston Square, Kings Cross, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street. The closest tubes are Euston and Euston Square.
Bus
Numbers 10, 18, 30, 73, 205 and 390 pass the door whilst 59, 68, 91, 168, and 253 stop nearby.
Travelling by Minibus or Car?
Friends House is within a meter parking zone. Charges must be paid Monday to Friday 08:30 -18:30. Please note that Friends House is within the congestion charge zone. For details of how to pay here.
Coaches
Coaches may stop outside Friends House to drop students off.
Parking
There is no on-site parking available at Friends House. The local roads have metered parking bays and fall within TfL charging zones. TFL driving information is available on the TFL website. There are three disabled blue badge parking bays located in Endsleigh Gardens.Information about Camden Council parking is available on the Council's website.
Getting to the Conference
Train
The closest train stations are Euston and Kings Cross.
Tube (underground)
Tube stations within a 5 to 15-minute walk include: Euston, Euston Square, Kings Cross, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road and Warren Street. The closest tubes are Euston and Euston Square.
Bus
Numbers 10, 18, 30, 73, 205 and 390 pass the door whilst 59, 68, 91, 168, and 253 stop nearby.
Travelling by Minibus or Car?
Friends House is within a meter parking zone. Charges must be paid Monday to Friday 08:30 -18:30. Please note that Friends House is within the congestion charge zone. For details of how to pay here.
Coaches
Coaches may stop outside Friends House to drop students off.
Parking
There is no on-site parking available at Friends House. The local roads have metered parking bays and fall within TfL charging zones. TFL driving information is available on the TFL website: tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/. There are three disabled blue badge parking bays located in Endsleigh Gardens. Information about Camden Council parking is available on the Council's website: www.camden.gov.uk/where-to-park.
Arrangements on the Day
Registration
Registration will open at 9.30am and we ask you to be in your seats for 10.15am so we can begin promptly at 10.25am.
Entrance is via the Euston Road entrance to Friends House.
Teachers Accompanying Students
We expect all students to be accompanied by a teacher. There should be a minimum of 1 teacher per 10 students.
We request that teachers meet their students in advance, register as a group and sit with their groups of students. Teachers are responsible for ensuring that their own students maintain acceptable standards of behaviour in the auditorium and in the Friends House building.
Lunch and Refreshments
The cafe at Friends House is open from 8am.
You and your students will be responsible for providing your own lunches. There are sandwich shops in the area immediately behind Friends House and plenty of food outlets across the road at Euston Station.
There are spaces outside for students to eat their packed lunch but no indoor spaces.
Barbara Bleiman (EMC)
Barbara Bleiman is an Education Consultant at EMC and co-editor of emagazine. She has written numerous articles, blogs and chapters in books about English teaching, including a book, What Matters in English Teaching, published by EMC in April 2020. She was the recipient of the NATE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching of English (2019) She is also a fiction writer, with two published novels. Her collection of short stories, Kremlinology of Kisses, appeared in October 2020.
Emma Barker
Emma Barker worked as an English teacher for many years in London schools, leading each of the key stages before becoming Head of English. At the EMC since 2016, she ran the English with media/drama PGCE course until 2023 and continues to teach the English side of EMC's Media with English PGCE with Goldsmiths, as well as working on student conferences and A Level courses at the Centre
Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus is a poet, educator and writer. In March 2019 he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. In May 2019, Antrobus became the first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection The Perseverance, praised by chair of the judges as "an immensely moving book of poetry which uses his deaf experience, bereavement and Jamaican-British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other." In 2021 he published his second collection, All the Names Given.
Ros Barber
Ros Barber is author of The Marlowe Papers and three collections of poetry; the most recent (Material) a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her critically-acclaimed verse novel, The Marlowe Papers, won the Desmond Elliott Prize and the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award, as well as being shortlisted for the Women’s Fiction Prize. Ros has had poems published in Faber, Penguin, Virago, Forward, and Seren anthologies, including Faber’s Poems of the Decade. Her novel Devotion was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. Her latest, Nothing Becoming, uncovers the childhood adventures of 18th-century pirate Mary Read.
Photo credit: Steve Cross
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage is the UK Poet Laureate. His numerous accolades include the 2018 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and an Ivor Novello Award for song-writing in the BAFTA-winning film Feltham Sings. He has published over a dozen collections of poetry and is the author of two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers. His poetry has been on the GSCE and A level curricula for two decades now. His latest books are Magnetic Field, inspired by the West Yorkshire village where he grew up and began life as a writer, and his translation of the medieval ‘verse contest’ The Owl and the Nightingale. Armitage also writes extensively for television and radio, most recently the BBC’s A Pandemic Poem: Where Did the World Go? Armitage is currently Professor of Poetry at Leeds University.
Photo credit: Peter James Millson
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. Her work has appeared widely in publications including The White Review, the London Review of Books, and The Atlantic, and she has held residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and the V&A Museum in London. Victoria is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard International Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber & Faber in the UK and in North America by Knopf, Penguin Random House.
Daljit Nagra
Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University, Chair of the Royal Society of Literature, Daljit’s four poetry collections have won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and Best First Book, the South Bank Show Decibel Award and the Cholmondeley Award. The inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Radio 4 & 4 Extra, he presents the weekly Poetry Extra.
Prices, Booking and Cancellations
Prices
- The fee is £22 per student, with one free teacher place as follows: 1-9 students = 1 free teacher place; 10-19 students = 2 free teacher places and so on.
- You will be automatically be allocated the correct number of teacher places and will need to provide details for each teacher attending. (These details can be amended, if necessary, when you tell us final numbers on 14 November.)
- For additional teachers, or teachers attending without students, for their own interest or CPD, the charge is £50 each.
Booking
- Book online and choose to pay by invoice.
- Conference places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
- Please note: we are unable to take provisional bookings.
- Please do not make final travel arrangements until your final booking has been confirmed and we have contacted you to let you know that you have definitely been allocated places.
- To book this conference you must be signed into one of the following accounts (registering an account first if you need to):
- UK Educator Admin (purchasing)
- UK Teacher – Home Address Only
- UK Private Individual
- Overseas
- If you have a UK Educator Standard (non-purchasing) account you will not be able to book the conference. Sign in to your account and add it to your Wishlist. See the list of people able to book conferences at your organisation by clicking ‘My Account’, then ‘Our Admin Users’.
Cancellations
- Cancellations or amendments can be made without charge until 5pm on Tuesday 14th November 2023.
- All subsequent cancellations will be dealt with in the following way:
- Cancellations after 5pm on Tuesday 14th November 2023 and up to 5pm on Tuesday 28th November 2023: 50% charge
- Cancellations after 5pm on Tuesday 28th November 2023: 100% charge.
Please note: We will be unable to make refunds in the case of weather, transport difficulties or circumstances beyond our control. Should EMC need to cancel the conference, a full refund will be on offer. (However, personal arrangements including travel, accommodation or hospitality relating to the conference which have been arranged by you or your institution are at your own risk and not refundable by us.)
Changes to bookings and waiting list
If you have already secured places for this conference and need to make changes to your booking, please send final confirmation of the number of tickets you require on 14 November only. We will send an automatic reminder to submit this information the day before it is due. We cannot process any information which is sent before 14 November.
The waiting list will be updated on 15 November and if you've registered interest in additional places you will be notified that week if any have become available then.
Fully booked
At a glance
- Date
- 12 Dec 2023
- Bookings Close
- 08.00AM on 08 Dec 2023
- Location
- Friends House, London