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Write on Liverpool

The exhibition officially opens to the public on Saturday 8 November. It is FREE to view and runs until the end of December.

‘Write On Liverpool’ gets underway at Liverpool Central Library tomorrow (Friday 7 November), gathering together five decades of Liverpool poetry for the first time in a city exhibition.

Exploring the unique contribution Liverpool poetry has made to English literature, ‘Write On Liverpool’ links some of this country’s best-loved and exciting writers with Liverpool, the city itself and its places: some iconic, some overlooked.

It features newly-commissioned portraits of 12 of the city’s leading poets since the 1960s, together with audio presentations of their memories of Liverpool and their sense of what its places have meant to their imaginations and their writing.

The collection is a major part of Central Library’s contribution to the Capital of Culture programme. It features Adrian Henri, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Paul Farley, Levi Tafari, Jamie McKendrick, Dave Ward, Eleanor Rees, Matt Simpson, Deryn Rees-Jones, Michael Murphy, Dinesh Allirajah and Gladys Mary Coles.

All the poets will be in attendance at the launch, except for Matt Simpson who is not in the city.

Write on Liverpool - associated with the Shipping Lines Liverpool Literary Festival 08, and supported by Arts Council, England and the Liverpool Culture Company, is presented by local artists Leila Romaya and Paul McCann.

Following Friday’s launch event, the exhibition officially opens to the public on Saturday 8 November. It is FREE to view and runs until the end of December.