POETRY READING: 100 Years of The Waste Land
THURS 17 NOV / 4.30–8PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
REGISTER HERE, to attend as audience
(FREE TO DROP IN THROUGHOUT THE EVENING)
Are you a reader of poetry?
Do you like to read aloud?
Are you part of a community group that would like to celebrate this poem together?
Open Eye Gallery is actively rethinking what a gallery can be. We invite you to get involved in a celebration of voices.
Come and join us to take part in a collective reading of The Waste Land or to read your own poem that is inspired by T.S.Eliot’s modernist masterpiece. We also welcome musicians who want to play a piece in celebration or response to the poem.
My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.
What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
I never know what you are thinking. Think.
It is 100 years since this seminal work was published. T.S.Eliot’s long poem mixes voices, texts and reflects on themes of language, post-war alienation, death, and loss.
The celebration will open with readings of poems inspired by The Waste Land as well as music. We will also share a digital display of photography that responds to its themes and ideas.
Wendy Smith, electroacoustic composer, will be making a field recording of The Waste Land rehearsal and event for possible future use in composition or new collaborative work.
To book a reading slot, and for more information about how you can get involved, contact Pauline Rowe: pauline@openeye.org.uk
To read the poem follow this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
To hear the poem being read by Alec Guinness follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw
The Waste Land by TS Eliot is © TS Eliot and is reused at our event with the permission of Faber & Faber Limited.
Programme
4.30 pm Doors Open
4.45 pm Welcome: Pauline Rowe
4.55 pm Elspeth McLean
Instrumental
The Gramophone
5.00 pm Julia Price
My Thoughts on T.S.Eliot
5.05 pm Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici
Ce te legeni? by Mihai Eminescu
Golden Vibes
Peace and Flowers
5.10 pm Suzie S Wood
5.15 pm Brian Wharton
5.20 pm Liz Goodridge
The Love Song of a Hard-Boiled Egg by Frank Goodridge
Waste Land Revisited by Gary Day
5.25 pm Paula Frew
The Fight
5.30 pm Flloyd Kennedy
5.40 pm Dave Ward & John Hughes
Selected readings from The Scrap Heap
(The Waste Land in Scouse) by R.L. Crawford.
6.00 pm [Break]
6.05 pm Andrea Power
Remains
6.10 pm Margaret Ryan
The Georgian Terrace
Healing Prayer
6.15 pm Claire Beerjeraz
6.25 pm Cath Holland
Dance Where No One Watches
6.30 pm Helen Tookey
Reading from ‘In the Quaker Hotel’ (Carcanet, 2022)
6.50 pm
Part I: The Burial of the Dead Sermon
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Paula Frew
Barbara Murray
Brenda Roberts
Julia Price
Brian Wharton
Anna Maria Parry
Andrea Power
Part II: A Game of Chess Sermon
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Helen Tookey
Shirley Jones
Sheila Jones
Suzie S Wood
Julia Price
Paula Frew
Brian Wharton
Andrea Power
Part III: The Fire Sermon
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Anna Maria Parry
Pauline Rowe
Cath Holland
Claire Beerjeraz
Bronwen H
Flloyd Kennedy
Julie
Part IV: Death by Water
Music: Phil & Richard
Reader:
Jack Bennett
Part V: What the Thunder Said
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Ali Harwood
Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici
Jane Eckford
Liz Goodridge
Pauline Rowe
Anna Maria Parry
8 pm Doors close
Image credit: Áine Rowe
THURS 17 NOV / 4.30–8PM / OPEN EYE GALLERY
REGISTER HERE, to attend as audience
(FREE TO DROP IN THROUGHOUT THE EVENING)
Are you a reader of poetry?
Do you like to read aloud?
Are you part of a community group that would like to celebrate this poem together?
Open Eye Gallery is actively rethinking what a gallery can be. We invite you to get involved in a celebration of voices.
Come and join us to take part in a collective reading of The Waste Land or to read your own poem that is inspired by T.S.Eliot’s modernist masterpiece. We also welcome musicians who want to play a piece in celebration or response to the poem.
My nerves are bad tonight. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
Speak to me. Why do you never speak. Speak.
What are you thinking of? What thinking? What?
I never know what you are thinking. Think.
It is 100 years since this seminal work was published. T.S.Eliot’s long poem mixes voices, texts and reflects on themes of language, post-war alienation, death, and loss.
The celebration will open with readings of poems inspired by The Waste Land as well as music. We will also share a digital display of photography that responds to its themes and ideas.
Wendy Smith, electroacoustic composer, will be making a field recording of The Waste Land rehearsal and event for possible future use in composition or new collaborative work.
To book a reading slot, and for more information about how you can get involved, contact Pauline Rowe: pauline@openeye.org.uk
To read the poem follow this link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
To hear the poem being read by Alec Guinness follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcj4G45F9pw
The Waste Land by TS Eliot is © TS Eliot and is reused at our event with the permission of Faber & Faber Limited.
Programme
4.30 pm Doors Open
4.45 pm Welcome: Pauline Rowe
4.55 pm Elspeth McLean
Instrumental
The Gramophone
5.00 pm Julia Price
My Thoughts on T.S.Eliot
5.05 pm Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici
Ce te legeni? by Mihai Eminescu
Golden Vibes
Peace and Flowers
5.10 pm Suzie S Wood
5.15 pm Brian Wharton
5.20 pm Liz Goodridge
The Love Song of a Hard-Boiled Egg by Frank Goodridge
Waste Land Revisited by Gary Day
5.25 pm Paula Frew
The Fight
5.30 pm Flloyd Kennedy
5.40 pm Dave Ward & John Hughes
Selected readings from The Scrap Heap
(The Waste Land in Scouse) by R.L. Crawford.
6.00 pm [Break]
6.05 pm Andrea Power
Remains
6.10 pm Margaret Ryan
The Georgian Terrace
Healing Prayer
6.15 pm Claire Beerjeraz
6.25 pm Cath Holland
Dance Where No One Watches
6.30 pm Helen Tookey
Reading from ‘In the Quaker Hotel’ (Carcanet, 2022)
6.50 pm
Part I: The Burial of the Dead Sermon
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Paula Frew
Barbara Murray
Brenda Roberts
Julia Price
Brian Wharton
Anna Maria Parry
Andrea Power
Part II: A Game of Chess Sermon
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Helen Tookey
Shirley Jones
Sheila Jones
Suzie S Wood
Julia Price
Paula Frew
Brian Wharton
Andrea Power
Part III: The Fire Sermon
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Anna Maria Parry
Pauline Rowe
Cath Holland
Claire Beerjeraz
Bronwen H
Flloyd Kennedy
Julie
Part IV: Death by Water
Music: Phil & Richard
Reader:
Jack Bennett
Part V: What the Thunder Said
Music: Phil & Richard
Readers:
Ali Harwood
Cristiana Steliana Mihailovici
Jane Eckford
Liz Goodridge
Pauline Rowe
Anna Maria Parry
8 pm Doors close
Image credit: Áine Rowe