Poetry Place Virtual Exhibition: Participant gallery


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Participant panels

The Poetry Place exhibition is now touring library galleries. The exhibition presents the outputs of a series of online workshops led by poet Sue Dymoke during 2021,  which invited local people to create poetry inspired by fascinating old photographs of the Sherwood Forest area from the Inspire Picture Archive. 

Scroll this page to see all the Poetry Place exhibition panels featuring poetry by our workshop participants and the archive images which inspired them . . .

To view the panels featuring the sequence of poems specially written for the exhibition by poet Sue Dymoke visit the Poet's Gallery.

Tip: Zoom in on the panels on your browser, or for an optimal reading experience of all the poetry, browse the digital version of our Poetry Place special publication.

Exhibition panel featuring the poem A Kind of Reunion and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Children of the Parish
Exhibition panel featuring the poems Welcome all to my soft drinks stall! and Mrs Robinson, plus an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poems Mrs Robinson's Off Again and Connections
Exhibition panel featuring the poems Heartsore and A Flourish of Trumpets for the Major Oak, and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Sherwood's Secret
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Words from the Major
Exhibition panel featuring the poem The Tree
Exhibition panel featuring the poem A Rich Seam and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Rufford
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Futures Unknown and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Mr Parnell and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poems Our First Trip and To Newark We Will Go, and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poem For Just One Day
Exhibition panel featuring the poem My Dearest and an old postcard
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Rich Pickings and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poems Dear Edwina and If you knew
Exhibition panel featuring the poem Pageant Time in the Forest and an archive photograph
Exhibition panel featuring the poem The Pageant, Edwinstowe Coal Sprites, 1953
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