Poetry met art at the Lansdown Gallery in Stroud last month. The exhibition, Faces, Forms & Forgeries, showcasing artworks by local artists, also included some poems responding to the paintings. One of the poems, Listening to a Painting, was written by Somewhere Else member Iris Anne Lewis and was displayed next to Lake Keitele, the painting which inspired her poem. The key to writing a poem in response to visual art is not simply to describe what you see but to bring a new perspective to it. In Listening to a Painting, Iris, (pictured with the painting), invokes the sounds which might be heard in the landscape.
Poetry and Art at the Lansdown Gallery
Somewhere Else Writers Group 