Another way for poems to speak
A busy gathering place for students, staff and visitors from all over the world is not where you'd normally expect to find an exhibition of poster-poems. But if all those poems were bilingual, with many different languages represented, written originally by poets often famous in their own countries ? That might be quite an eloquent statement, quite apart from what the words themselves were saying. The collage of photographs here records a small exhibition of bilingual poem-posters that has recently been showing in a public setting managed by Bristol University. The exhibition went up under the stewardship of the university's Bristol Poetry Institute. Half way up the collage, towards the left, you can see a background photograph of all the poems together displayed on the wall. Four of them…