POEM OF THE NORTH 2018
To celebrate 50 years of the Northern Poetry Library, we welcome you to a living, growing, collaborative artwork-in-progress. The Poem of the North brings together the work of the fifty selected poets, in five cantos, published over a period of six months. By the end of 2018, the completed poem will stand as a celebratory artefact: a tribute to the region and acknowledgement of the North’s rich seam of writers and written culture.
In 2018, Adam was selected as one of fifty poets to mark the golden anniversary of the Northern Poetry Library in Northumberland, the largest collection of post-World War Two poetry outside London. A form of 8-2-1 was devised as a tribute to the poetry section of libraries, with no remit on subject other than a depiction of life in the north of England.
Adam’s contribution, April’s end, can be read here.
