Private View Thursday 5th of March 6.30 to 9.30
Drawings & Drawn Poems includes 6 of Stephen Watts’ notebooks from his recently published A Book Of Drawn Poems, spanning the period 1991-2008. The exhibition also displays earlier drawings & small paintings, mostly from 1974. In all these works the poet seeks to embrace the sense of poetry as drawing & vice versa : not ‘asemic’ work, nor ‘concrete poetry’ : rather works that seek to naturally express the breathing of line & motion in both poetry & image more or less at the same time.
A Book Of Drawn Poems was published by Joe Hales’s Sylvia Editions in December 2025.
Stephen Watts will do a performance from A Book Of Drawn Poems, followed by Mikey Kirkpatrick at the opening on Thursday 5th March.
Two other events are included during the exhibition :
Saturday 7th March at 7: Screening of Huw Wahl‘s two films made with Stephen Watts The Republics (2019) & I Am A Film (2022) . Free event/donations.
Saturday 14th March at 4.30: an afternoon of improvised music in response to A Book Of Drawn Poems. Interpretations by Caius Williams (double bass), Vicky Sparrow and Aine O’Dwyer. Free event/donations.
Stephen Watts is a poet (editor & translator) whose most recent books include Ancient Sunlight (Enitharmon, 2014), Republic Of Dogs/ Republic Of Birds (Test Centre, 2016; Prototype, 2020), and Journeys Across Breath: Poems 1975-2005 (Prototype, 2022). Two exhibitions: Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds (PEER Gallery, 2021) & Explosion of Words (Nunnery Gallery, 2022), focused in part on his drawn poems and translation research.
