Out of the Archive
Today’s panel brings together three poets who’ve drawn on a range of archives for their work – from the accounts of witch trials and documents from historic ‘lunatic asylums’ to the archives of Muriel Spark and Beethoven. Join poets Theresa Muñoz, Fiona Benson and Rommi Smith, in conversation with Sarah Grant, as they discuss the challenges and joys of archival research, and how it can feed into and transform a poetic practice.
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