About a year ago, I attended the first Wycombe Arts Forum where I met Peter Keeble of Metroland Poets.  We had a little chat, and decided to see if a group of poets could collaborate with a group of artists, and what new poetry and painting would be made.

The first step was for the poets to write a poem in response to an image.  In January, a group of artists visited the poets’ meeting in Amersham, each taking a sample of their work to see how the poets would respond.  The outcome of that visit was a display of work, at Commercial Square, where new poems were read along-side the original image.

In return, the artists were invited to make new work in reply to poems.  These we showed last Sunday (11 October).

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For the future

There are two streams suggested for continuing this project:

• Several artists who missed out this year have expressed interest in participating next year, and I gather there have been similar suggestions by members of Metroland Poets.  We hope to repeat the exercise next year.
• Those artists and poets who did take part this year have been offered a challenge, a bit like a conversation, produce a new work in reply to the response to your original piece.

If you’d like to learn more, or participate next year, please click here http://rstuart.com/contact/poetry-and-painting/