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Past exhibitions

Enchantment Will Find Me

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Image Credit: 
Harpreet Kalsi

Enchantment Will Find Me

©
Image Credit: 
Harpreet Kalsi

The National Poetry Library runs an extensive programme art exhibitions. From film to installation, painting to audio, find out about some of our previous highlights.

Open Day 2019
Our eleventh annual open day, curated on the theme of 'disruption'

Guernica Remakings
Picasso's anti-war masterpiece reimagined in a multimedia exhibition curated by Nicola Ashmore

The Typographic Dante
A journey from Hell to Paradise with artist Barrie Tullett

Constructing Spaces
An immersive reconstruction of poet WS Graham’s creative space, celebrating his centenary year

Open Day 2018
Our tenth annual open day was curated on the theme of 'odysseys'

Language Shift
An exhibition of work by artist Mary Kuper

Instagram Poetry
We hosted the world's first Instagram Poetry exhibition in 2018

Radical Alterations of the Sun
This National Poetry Library exhibition celebrated 50 years of Poetry International with new commissions and a tour of our archive

Open Day 2017
Discover what happened at the National Poetry Library’s open day in 2017

Larkinworld
Philip Larkin’s reputation for misery was challenged in this exhibition by D J Roberts

Conceptual Poetics
Discover our exhibition about the controversial poetry movement

David Byrne's Library
What happened when David Byrne brought his library to the Southbank Centre?