Past Projects

  • Collections in Verse
    A multi-year collaboration to establish a new approach to touring exhibitions.
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  • Common Language
    A new digital series of events, putting poets in conversation with activists and academics to unpick the words heard across the news and social media.
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  • Re-Voicing Words
    A year on from “Connected Through the Unknown: A Hounslow COVID Archive” we invite Hounslow residents to reflect on the year gone by.
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  • A drop of hope: Poetry from a Vaccination Centre
    Twelve virtual poets-in-residence write poems reflecting on the impact of the vaccination program, and the shifts and changes we’ve all gone through in the past year.
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  • Woolwich Speaks
    Discover a new epic poem about Woolwich via a colourful poetry street trail and online film this August
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  • Connected Through the Unknown: A Hounslow COVID Archive
    Poet in the City and Hounslow Council are developing a creative archive recording the ways in which the COVID 19 pandemic has impacted local people in the borough.
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  • See Paddington
    Poet in the City is working with Steer and Jedco Product Design on a public art project in the Paddington area to help reveal and draw visitors to the Grand Union Canalside, commissioned by the Paddington Partnership.
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  • Hillview Poetic Histories
    Hillview Poetic Histories is an innovative collaboration between residents of Hillview Estate and Poet in the City uncovering Hillview’s story as a self-run housing collective that survived in the face of austerity and eviction notices, influencing short life and cooperative housing movements in the UK since the 1970s.
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