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Words for Walls

Project launch

Sandy Mahal, Director of UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature, opens the launch event
 

Overview

On Wednesday 9th November, 6.30-8pm, the official launch of Words for Walls took place at THiNK, a creative space and cafe in Nottingham's quirky Combden Chambers. The launch was part of Nottingham Festival of Literature (8th - 13th November 2016), an annual event that celebrates the diversity of Nottingham's literature scene.

Local poets, academics, and members of the public came together for a celebratory evening that featured poetry readings and short talks by researchers from the University of Nottingham.

The project was very pleased to have Sandy Mahal, director of UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature, as the opening speaker for the event.

The evening ended with a chance to see the first print run of poetry posters going on display around Nottingham from November 2016. A huge thanks to Charlotte Anscombe (University of Nottingham) for designing this wonderful set of posters.

View the photos from launch night!

We were really pleased to be able to bring together such a diverse and lively group of poets to launch the project and demonstrate both the range and quality of poetry on offer in Nottingham. Presentations from Annalise Grice and Charlotte May were a great way of linking contemporary poetry in Nottingham to the city's poetic heritage, and the research which is being conducted at the University of Nottingham.

- Nicola Thomas, project co-founder

 
 

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Nicola Thomas and Philip Jones (project founders) - launch introduction
Sandy Mahal (director of UNESCO Nottingham City of Literature) - opening talk
Philip Jones - reading of 'Capture of the Five Boroughs' (from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)
Short talk by researchers from the University of Nottingham
Charlotte May - short talk on Lord Byron, with a reading of 'We'll Go No More A-Roving'
Annalise Grice - short talk on D. H. Lawrence, with a reading of his 'Things Men Have Made'
Poetry readings by members of the public
Elaine Bowden - reading of '5 O'Clock Light'
Viv Apple - reading of 'Starlings'
Mark Gilbert - reading of Two Poems
Kevin Jackson - reading of 'Warser Gate'
Sophie Peach - reading of 'Bittersweet Memory'
Phil Deakin - talk about Nottingham's contemporary poetry scene(s)
Poetry readings by practicing poets
Panya Banjoko - reading of 'Beside the Pool'
Ioney Smallhorne - reading of an extract from 'Christianity, Kiffa Beads and Cane'
Matthew Welton - reading of 'A Bird Guide to Nottingham'
Sarah Jackson - reading of 'Friday 12.03'
Jai Verna - reading of 'Relations and Associations' in Hindi, accompanied by Nicola Thomas in English
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