RUBBISH WORDS
The National Poetry Centre
18TH-20TH OCTOBER
Leeds Corn Exchange, LS1 7BR (Lower Ground Floor)
As part of the Poetry School’s Summit Festival, the National Poetry Centre is unleashing ‘Rubbish Words’, a three-day pop-up poetry event in Leeds which invites you to create poetry and art from recycled newspapers, posters, magazines and other found words.
Poet Sarah Dawson will be assisting throughout, with artist George Storm Fletcher creating a collage from all the poetry produced.
Sarah Dawson
Sarah Dawson is a poet, artist, performer, researcher and educator. She is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds. In her work, she takes linguistic processes that are important in her everyday life, and re-interprets them as creative tasks that can be used to generate poetry.
The event will take place on the lower ground floor of the Corn Exchange between 10am and 4pm on the 18th, 19th and 20th October. There will be quieter sessions each day between 10am-12pm. You can get information about getting there and accessibility here.
George Storm Fletcher
George Storm Fletcher is a printmaker, performance artist, and menace. Fletcher’s practice focuses on the unimaginable effects of happenings and histories. In recent years this has manifested as a series of text-based public interventions, with their trademark, immediate, DIY aesthetic.
More about The National Poetry Centre
The vision to create a new national home for poetry in Leeds is building momentum. The project will breathe life back into an historic Leeds landmark, Trinity St. David’s, currently lying empty.
Poetry is the most accessible and democratic of art forms – common to all languages and cultures. It is enjoying an international boom in popularity. A national centre would elevate the position of poetry in national life, becoming the spiritual home for poetry as it is written, read, spoken and performed – up and down the country.
The centre will provide cafes, bookshops, performance spaces, workshops, a 250-seat auditorium, writing rooms, exhibitions, live performances, archives and a broadcasting centre. Situating a national poetry centre outside of London makes an unequivocal statement about the importance of levelling up and improving equality of access to arts and culture across the UK.
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