Partly Writing 4: Writing and the Poetics of Exchange The Text Festival hosts this year's Partly Writing on 4-5 June 2005 Partly Writing 4 follows the model of the previous Partly Writing events: it is a weekend of conversations and discussions among a range of writers and text practitioners. It emphasises practice, research and open intellectual engagement. This year we are especially keen to discuss examples of social and artistic practice which you feel engage with the role of exchange as part of writing culture. These may be examples that you value and/or that you are actively generating in your own work. In what ways do contemporary writing arts engage with modes of exchange: as social and aesthetic bonds, gift-objects, gift-making activities, forms of circulation, negotiations, transits, limits, inhibitions? Saturday 4 June 2005 WELCOME Welcome from the Bury Text Festival (TT) Introduction to Partly Writing (CB, CW) Session One Chair: Caroline Bergvall Writing and Collaborati