Poets Hanan Issa and James Conor Patterson at Open Eye Gallery
21 May / 2 pm / RSVP / free entry
Join us for an afternoon of coffee, cakes and poetry!
As part of the HOME programme come along to hear the National Poet of Wales, Hanan Issa, and T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet, James Conor Patterson, for a live reading of newly commissioned work and conversation. The poets will read their new poems, written in response to Ukrainian photographers, and then join gallery Director Sarah Fisher and National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, for discussion about the art of writing in response to images.
Poetry inspired by the vibrant and diverse contemporary Ukrainian photography is an essential part of our HOME programme, realised during the Eurovision Song Contest and EuroFestival to celebrate and support Ukrainian culture. Six Ukrainian photographers told their stories about home through images. Six UK poets, representing the UK nations and Liverpool, responded with a short poem. These diptychs can be seen at the train stations, on the streets of Liverpool and on the University of Liverpool campus.
The photographers: Maryna Frolova, Alexander Chekmenev, Igor Chekachkov, Polina Polikarpova, Yaroslav Solop, Mykhaylo Palinchak, curated by Ukrainian. Photographies. The poets: Deryn Rees-Jones, Jackie Kay, James Conor Patterson, John Hegley, Hanan Issa, Roger McGough, curated by the National Poetry Library.
HOME programme includes exhibitions, publications and events in the gallery and across the Liverpool city region. It was commissioned by Culture Liverpool / Liverpool City Council, with kind support from EuroFestival and Arts Council England.
Poetry programme is produced in partnership with the Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library, the University of Liverpool Centre for New and International Writing, The Poetry Society, European Poetry Festival, Liverpool Poetry Space and The Windows Project.
Image credit: Rob Battersby
The Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library is the largest public collection of modern poetry in the world and is housed at the Southbank Centre in London. Founded by the Arts Council in 1953 and opened by poets T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read, the library contains over 200,000 items spanning from 1912 to the present day, extensive resources for poets, academics, schools and families. Hosting exhibitions and events, as well as offering an extensive catalogue and ebook service accessible online, the library is free to use.
European Poetry Festival is one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in the UK. Eleven events over three weeks will see over one hundred poets from across the continent and the UK come together.
The Centre for New and International Writing is the University of Liverpool’s focal point for the study of contemporary and international literatures, for creative writing, and new writing in its many manifestations.
The Poetry Society is one of Britain’s most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has more than 5,000 members worldwide and publishes the UK’s leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review, which has been published since 1912.
Liverpool Poetry Space is a collective in Liverpool and the city region of poetry organisations and people who are passionate about poetry as an art form and its potential to transform the lives of everyone who has the opportunity to interact with it.
21 May / 2 pm / RSVP / free entry
Join us for an afternoon of coffee, cakes and poetry!
As part of the HOME programme come along to hear the National Poet of Wales, Hanan Issa, and T.S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet, James Conor Patterson, for a live reading of newly commissioned work and conversation. The poets will read their new poems, written in response to Ukrainian photographers, and then join gallery Director Sarah Fisher and National Poetry Librarian, Chris McCabe, for discussion about the art of writing in response to images.
Poetry inspired by the vibrant and diverse contemporary Ukrainian photography is an essential part of our HOME programme, realised during the Eurovision Song Contest and EuroFestival to celebrate and support Ukrainian culture. Six Ukrainian photographers told their stories about home through images. Six UK poets, representing the UK nations and Liverpool, responded with a short poem. These diptychs can be seen at the train stations, on the streets of Liverpool and on the University of Liverpool campus.
The photographers: Maryna Frolova, Alexander Chekmenev, Igor Chekachkov, Polina Polikarpova, Yaroslav Solop, Mykhaylo Palinchak, curated by Ukrainian. Photographies. The poets: Deryn Rees-Jones, Jackie Kay, James Conor Patterson, John Hegley, Hanan Issa, Roger McGough, curated by the National Poetry Library.
HOME programme includes exhibitions, publications and events in the gallery and across the Liverpool city region. It was commissioned by Culture Liverpool / Liverpool City Council, with kind support from EuroFestival and Arts Council England.
Poetry programme is produced in partnership with the Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library, the University of Liverpool Centre for New and International Writing, The Poetry Society, European Poetry Festival, Liverpool Poetry Space and The Windows Project.
Image credit: Rob Battersby
The Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library is the largest public collection of modern poetry in the world and is housed at the Southbank Centre in London. Founded by the Arts Council in 1953 and opened by poets T.S. Eliot and Herbert Read, the library contains over 200,000 items spanning from 1912 to the present day, extensive resources for poets, academics, schools and families. Hosting exhibitions and events, as well as offering an extensive catalogue and ebook service accessible online, the library is free to use.
European Poetry Festival is one of the grandest celebrations of European poetry ever to take place in the UK. Eleven events over three weeks will see over one hundred poets from across the continent and the UK come together.
The Centre for New and International Writing is the University of Liverpool’s focal point for the study of contemporary and international literatures, for creative writing, and new writing in its many manifestations.
The Poetry Society is one of Britain’s most dynamic arts organisations, representing British poetry both nationally and internationally. Today it has more than 5,000 members worldwide and publishes the UK’s leading poetry magazine, The Poetry Review, which has been published since 1912.
Liverpool Poetry Space is a collective in Liverpool and the city region of poetry organisations and people who are passionate about poetry as an art form and its potential to transform the lives of everyone who has the opportunity to interact with it.
