Contributors include:

May Dearlove 

Palaeography Room (c)

From: Herd of Bird

Herd of Bird is a pair of poetic book-works nested in a box.

Singing Bird Box is inspired in form and content by the historical singing bird boxes of the nineteenth century. Rather than the pleasure afforded the viewer by such boxes, this box offers us a voice of one made to appear and sing.

Blockley Bird Opera is a miniature peepshow made in response to the dramatic entrance of a bird through a kitchen window. I saw in that bird the struggle of the uncontainable self against the trappings of domesticity.

Caroline Harris  

Palaeography Room (a)

From Insect Interventions  

Insect Interventions is a collection of tiny paper scroll poems, each relating to a specific invertebrate encounter, secured with coloured embroidery thread and kept in glass vials in a test-tube rack, plus a series of concertina poems stuck with entomology pins into display boxes. In this performance, the unpinned ‘insects’ begin to swarm from their glass containers into corners of the archive.

Briony Hellon-Hughes  

Room 513

from Speculative Frequencies 

In this live art installation, Briony will produce typewritten concrete poems responding to a field recording of echolocating bats in between readings of poems from the sequence.  

Francis De Lima

415- Seng Tee Lee Centre

Bodied Call: A site-specific film work that responds to the enmeshments of the economic, socio-political, and ecological systems of the small lighthouse-island of Bengtskär in southern Finland. 

Will Montgomery

Room 512

Will Montgomery will present live variations on his audio release Six Doses, published recently by Suppedaneum. The work comprises percussive pieces generated during a period of ill-health and then re-edited and re-energised earlier this year.

Redell Olsen

Sterling Library

From Fossil Oil: a book of hours (2024)  and Rough/ruffs (2025).

Bookworks and sculptural objects with installed audio pieces. A series of meditations for our fossil fuel era interrupted by figures and traces of other books, bodies, and readers. 

Isabelle Masters

Room 510

A poetics board game called A Distancing Act of Play

Verity Rowsell

415-Seng Tee Lee Centre

‘Oceanic Bodies’ comprises a short film and accompanying bookwork that respond to rising sea levels through an exploration of the tidal Thames as a site of regeneration and risk, subject to past and future flooding scenarios. The film documents the production of a collection of poem-paintings that materially engage with the interconnectedness of human and planetary bodies of water.

Dani Salvadori

Durning-Lawrence Room

Delineations is an artist’s book and sequence of 40 poems that represents the emotional impact of the colours used in the first geological map created by William Smith in 1815 along with two parallel poetic sequences: one based around place and the other around geology. Delineations represents geological strata in paper form with pages layered with maps and poems. This makes it not only unwieldy, but hard to handle and read. The Geological Lucky Dip will enable visitors to engage with the work and the strata of England and Wales in paper form. They will randomly choose a colour, find it on the map and hear the poems I have written about the place and its geology. Individuals and groups are welcome to engage in the event.

Wilson Seiler

Palaeography Room (b)

How to pray is a cut booklet that examines the kinds of questions we ask computers and how those questions can shape our relationship with technology into something resembling worship. The form, inspired by Raymond Queneau, invites the reader to peel back each line and cycle through various iterations of the poem, similar to a rosary.