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Past exhibitions

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Liliane Lijn - Poem Game | 20-Mar-13

In 1970 Lijn created a deck of 54 word cards and invented three games to play with them - a game of power, a game of poetry and a game of divination.

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Visual Poetics - Readings | 20-Mar-13

Readings for the exhibition.

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Visual Poetics | 12-Feb-13

This exhibition, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe, focuses on the ways in which poetry has moved into a visual dimension in work by recent UK and UK-based practitioners.

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Formerly: An Exhibition of Disappearing London | 11-Dec-12

Poems by Tamar Yoseloff - Photographs by Vici Macdonald

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Poetry Library Open Day 2012| Poetic Censorship | 18-Nov-12

The fourth annual Poetry Library Open Day focused on the poetic controversies of the past century

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Printed in Norfolk - Coracle Publications 1989-2012 | 01-Nov-12

Printed in Norfolk is organized by RGAP and Helen Mitchel

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BARNACLES & DAMES - Mary Kuper | 18-Sep-12

An exhibition of etymologies, poetry and images celebrating 100 years of books in the Saison Poetry Library.

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The World Record - David Kelly | 03-Jul-12

Two artists present photography and video on the events of Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre.

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The World Record - Alexander Kell | 03-Jul-12

Two artists present photography and video on the events of Poetry Parnassus at Southbank Centre.

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The World Record | 03-Jul-12

A handwritten collection of poems produced by poets at Poetry Parnassus, and an autographed desk they wrote them at.

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Poetry of Unknown Words | 09-Mar-12

See five double-sided prints (shown recto and verso) in response to work by Gertrude Stein, HD, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emmy Hennings and Valerie Solanas.

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Poetry Library Open Day 2011 | 13-Nov-11

An opportunity for visitors to delve into the Poetry Library's unique and ever expanding collection. Several themes ranging from 'Poetical Histories' to 'Ciphers of the Zeitgeist' were explored. It was a fantastic opportunity to engage with poets from around the world or rediscover old favorites.

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Alex Knell | 31-Aug-11

Taking on Literature's most challenging theme, Knell expands on the intimate language of love, rendering a distinction between the private and the universal. The library's visitors are invited to take a leap of trust and submit their love letters and emails for Knell to develop into stand alone text pieces. The artist's intervention in the form of hidden messages interleaved between pages of the library's collection will later be bound into a compendium of open messages of hope, affirmation, joy - "a tonic for the nation",to reflect the ambitions of the first Festival of Britain.

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Dawn Scarfe | 31-Aug-11

A recording of W. H. Auden reading "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" (1939) is repeatedly re-sounded through a tenor viol strung with natural gut. The acoustic, resonant sound of the instrument gradually 'drowns out' Auden's voice during the process of re-recording.

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Martin Sexton | 31-Aug-11

Poet, writer and multimedia artist, Martin Sexton brings his ongoing series of futiques to the library; collectible works of the future, works that are seemingly written in the past, witnessed and read in the present, yet reveal objects from or portents of the future. The artist's video installations disrupt any sense of chronology, existing in a collision of mythology and reality, rendering borders between the two irrelevant.

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Katherine Jones | 03-Aug-11

Katherine Jones' collagraph prints focus on Britain's coastal erosion and are exhibited alongside an artist's book made in collaboration with the award winning poet Retta Bowen. A continuum of Jones' ghostlike, mid-air motifs, the artistÕs book as a suspended mobile, challenges conventional form through its kinetic structure and references Lynn Chadwick's Fisheater, commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951.

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GOTO10 | 03-Aug-11

GOTO10 exploits Wi-fi signals and combines them with the library's database to create original digital verse. With a simple hack to a wireless router, the international digital arts collective GOTO10 present the unsuspecting passer-by with anything from a playful cut and paste collage to creative propaganda. Drawing comparisons with SMS and Twitter poetry such as 'twaiku', messages are transmitted from the library, feeding poetry to public spaces around the Southbank Centre. GOTO10's public intervention is kindly supported by SPACE.

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Alexandre Bettler | 06-Jul-11

Swiss artist Alexandre Bettler's unorthodox approach to graphic design advocates social interaction as a catalyst of creativity. The photocopier, an office automaton, is transformed into a poetry machine, loaded with pre-printed text from State of the Nation, a central theme of this year's London Literature Festival. Participants are invited to add their musings of 'random poetry' to be collated as an artists's book edition. Artist's Book Workshop: The Poetry Machine Saturday 9 July & Sunday 10 July, 2-4.30pm Bookings: info@poetrylibrary.org.uk Join Alexandre Bettler on The Poetry Machine's production line, to extrapolate an edition of hand bound books. Suitable for all ages.

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Oona Grimes | 06-Jul-11

Following Grimes' recent collaborations with Iain Sinclair and Fabian Peake, the Southbank Centre's Festival of Britain celebrations gives the artist an opportunity to plunder our national archives. Like a demented Carroll or Lear on speed, Grimes deconstructs poems to appropriate words and phrases, disregarding their original and specific usage. As a result the collision and slippage of words, liberated from reason, manifest themselves as playful bricolage discarded throughout the library. Artists' Book Workshop: Postcard Cut-outs Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 July, 2 - 4.30pm Bookings: info@poetrylibrary.org.uk Join Alex Czincel and Oona Grimes to creatively engage with cut-up found material and concrete poetry postcards. Suitable for children.

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Alex Czinczel | 06-Jul-11

Following Bob Cobbing's cut-up instructions, German book artist Alex Czinczel's stop-frame animation re-enacts The Young Hedgehog (1956). Taking clippings from The Observer, Czinczel re-contextualises Cobbing's poetry in relation to current affairs and highlights the library?s collection of his books, magazines and sound recordings to a new audience. Artists' Book Workshop: Postcard Cut-outs 23 Saturday & 24 Sunday July, 2 - 4.30pm Bookings: info@poetrylibrary.org.uk Join Alex Czinczel and Oona Grimes to creatively engage with cut-up found material and concrete poetry postcards. Suitable for children.

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