Poetry in the City is both a celebration of Liverpool’s lively yearround poetry scene, and a catalyst for the creation of new work by the city’s poets.
During the festival, commissioned poets will start to create unusual and varied poetry in response to the streets, languages, buildings, music, and history of Liverpool.
Each project offers an opportunity for the poet to experiment, collaborate, and explore, be that working with a musician or translating a poem into English, the aim is to challenge and excite an audience. There are four commissions:
Translation Project: A poet working in English will translate a newly commissioned poem about Liverpool from a poet from one of Liverpool’s refugee communities.
Billboard Commission: A poet and an artist will produce text and artwork to be displayed on hoardings around the city.
Poetry Residency: A multimedia response to an inner-city environment
Poetry and Music: A performance-based project in which one or two poets will work with a musician or ensemble to create new work.
For further details as these projects develop email PIC via the Contact Page
In the space between two heart…
Copper birds shake off their chains
A radio tower slumps, rubber-spined
Stone lions slip from plinths
Cathedrals lumber closer
Superlambanana bleats
Bronze statues query pigeons
remind me again, who am I?
Anfield & Goodison wrestle
Three flirtatious Graces sing
make us a mirror, River
Theatres belch trapped laughter
Parks play Chinese Whispers
Avenues of trees pass it on, pass it on
Docks stroke the flanks of ships
One-way systems unravel
City bones of wood, iron, glass, stone
….beats
and life pulses through the city
breath in its lungs
blood in its veins
and – at its heart – you.
Heart of the City, Sarah Maclennan
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