"No one exists alone": Henry Moore and W.H. Auden's graphic encounters
Sat 21 Jun 2025, 3pm
Venue: Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Address: Dane Tree House, Perry Green, Much Hadham, SG10 6EE
Join Michael Symmons Roberts (poet, writer and broadcaster) for a reading of Auden’s poems accompanied by visuals of Moore’s illustrations and a discussion about the relevance of this encounter between two of the 20th century’s creative visionaries.
In 1972, Henry Moore and the writer W.H. Auden began collaborating on an illustrated portfolio of poems from across Auden’s career. Moore said of the visual component of the project, that he decided not to illustrate, but to complement and create contrasts to Auden’s words.
The resulting publication, Auden Poems, Moore Lithographs, was completed after Auden’s death in September 1973. It contains some of Moore’s finest, but also most mysterious graphic work: figures and architectural forms veiled in darkness, and cracked, barren landscapes.
