Poets on the Dance Floor
Spotlighting music and movement, poets Iris Colomb, Rob Gallagher, Oluwaseun Olayiwola and Belinda Zhawi chronicle the dance floors that have inspired them.
Iris Colomb is a London-based poet, artist and performer whose practice explores relationships between visual and verbal forms of text through objects, improvisation and experimental translation.
In 2019, Galliano frontman Rob Gallagher published The Dancefloors of England, ruminating on clubs and dancefloors as a way of discovering what happens in these spaces.
Poet, choreographer, critic and performer Oluwaseun (Seun) Olayiwola is the author of Strange Beach (Fitzcarraldo).
Belinda Zhawi, aka MA.MOYO, is a literary and sound artist born in Zimbabwe and based in south-east London. She is the author of the pamphlet Small Inheritances and co-founder of literary arts platform BORN::FREE.
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This event is held at the National Poetry Library Southbank Centre
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Tuesday, 12 noon – 6pm
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Monday, closed.
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