Word Order - Reading by Peter Reid

20 May

Saturday 20 May, 3pm

"And I too am a painter". Twentieth-Century Visual Poetry in France, Italy and Scotland. Reading by prof. Peter Reid.

Using slide projections and works in translation, Peter Read will present Italian Futurist ‘words in liberty’, ‘lyrical ideograms’ by Guillaume Apollinaire and picture poems by Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay. The result will be a bridge of words and images across the twentieth century, between calligrams and concrete poetry, between Scotland and mainland Europe.

admission free