Special Edition: Echoes and Reflections
Write to Life collaborates with John Hegley, Inua Ellams and Shephali Frost, three brilliant artists with distinctive styles in words and music.
Write to Life is a therapeutic and creative writing group for survivors of torture, where they come to rebuild their lives and identities by finding a new voice.
Their extraordinary stories emerge as poems and memoir, but also in other forms: a promenade performance at the Tate, a print and video A – Z of Poverty, a musical narrative in binaural audio and a film about setting medical reports to music.
Tonight they collaborate with John Hegley, Inua Ellams and Shephali Frost in spoken word with a musical heart.
Need to know
For your visit
This event is held at the National Poetry Library Southbank Centre
The National Poetry Library is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 12 noon – 6pm
Wednesday – Sunday, 12 noon – 8pm
Monday, closed.
Getting here
The National Poetry Library is on Level 5 of our Royal Festival Hall.
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Study & library use
The library is London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Visitors studying another subject or looking for a place to work are kindly asked to find an alternative space in the Royal Festival Hall.