We are delighted to announce the presenters and titles for Poetics before Modernity Conference 2017, taking place at CRASSH on 14-15 December! These are (in alphabetical order): '"La Regina de' Stellanti Giri": Prose Epic and Heroic Style in Lucrezia Marinella's Vita di Maria Vergine' Bryan Brazeau (Warwick) 'The Ends of Biblical Epic' Anna Goetz Boemler (Northwestern) 'The Enchanted Palace: Form and Content in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso' Patrick Gray (Durham) '"What's Hecuba