Poetry And… Seeing with Lavinia Greenlaw & Neil McGregor, Chaired by Ruth Padel
Two magical and widely-loved writers on the attention poetry gives, which we all give, to the visual image and physical objects in our lives and in our art.
Lavinia Greenlaw is a prize-winning poet, novelist, non-fiction writer and documentary-maker. Her research interests include image-making and problems of perception, her most recent poetry collection is The Built Moment, and her latest book is Some Answers Without Questions: part memoir, part manifesto, exploring what enables anyone, especially a woman and an artist, to create and respond even when no one asks her.
Neil McGregor is an art historian, former Director of the National Gallery and British Museum, and a radio and TV documentary-maker. His books, such as A History of the World in 100 Objects, Living with the Gods and Shakespeare's Restless World, are often accompanied by a radio or TV series and an exhibition. In them, he often uses objects as a means of interrogating the world, the past, people’s beliefs and ways of living, or themes in Shakespeare’s plays.
This event is taking place online via Microsoft Teams. The link to join the event will be emailed to you on registration and the morning of the event.