We were really excited by the
Cambridge Festival of Ideas, and particularly glad that we were able to obtain tickets for the '
Poetry of Things' event in the Cast Gallery of the Cambridge University Museum of Classical Archaeology.
The participating
Thresholds Project poets were National Poet of Wales Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Jo Shapcott and Sean Borodale. The poets were in
conversation with Steve Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English in the
University of Cambridge, and Isobel Armstrong, Emeritus Professor of
English at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Each poet described aspects of his or her residency in an assigned museum - or University Library in the case of Imtiaz Dharker. The poets presented poems that had been written on their residencies and the audience were invited to ask questions about the creative process and about the way in which the poets had responded to their allotted collections.
I am looking forward to another poetry event in Cambridge, this time in December in the
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences. The Fen Poets and their Young Curators will be launching a new poetry pamphlet on artefacts in museums throughout the eastern region. I am looking forward to reading my contribution. More details to follow ...
