Museum of Words: Poetry in The Hub
How do we exhibit objects without a space for them to be physically exhibited? This is what Museum of Words: Poetry in the Hub set out to answer.聽
We invited staff and students to engage poetically with objects from the University鈥檚 collections. Poets work was displayed on聽a prominent west-facing wall in the Hub in 2019.
The Installation
What sorts of objects inspired this writing? Read聽about the objects that we聽invited participants to respond to, with an introduction to the history of the objects themselves from Project Officer Kate Davies.
Click here聽to read some of the poems that聽were contributed to the exhibition and a brief history of the art of writing about objects from the exhibition鈥檚 Curator Dominic Symes.