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– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This event takes place in Creative Studio at Whitechapel Gallery, which is located on the third floor, accessible via stairs or a lift.
– You must purchase a ticket to attend the event. Concession tickets are available. If you require a Personal Assistant to support your attendance, we can offer them a seat free of charge, but it must be arranged in advance.
– If the ticket price affects your attendance, please email tickets@whitechapelgallery.org to be added to the guest list (no questions asked, but dependent on availability).
– This event is suitable for those over the age of 16
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event last approximately 1.5 hours. There are no rest breaks currently scheduled.
– An audio recording of the event can be obtained by emailing publicprogrammes@whitechapelgallery.org following the event.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Live Recording
Please note: we audio record all events for the Whitechapel Gallery Archive.
Join us for a poetry reading featuring two visionary poets, Will Alexander and Maggie O’Sullivan. Organised in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Writing (QMUL), this event will take audiences on a journey through cosmic and materially profound landscapes, conjured by Alexander and O’Sullivan – poets who have long been committed to what language can manifest, dispel, and radically transform.
Based in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London, the new Centre for Contemporary Writing hosts literary events, research and practice workshops, and publishes the Subtexts creative writing journal. Follow them on social media to find out more.
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Will Alexander is a critically acclaimed, LA-based poet, philosopher, visual artist and poet. His work is known for its visionary, oracular surrealism and the influence of Negritude. He has won a Whiting Fellowship for Poetry, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a 2016 Jackson Poetry Prize. He has published numerous collections with various publishers in the US, including The Combustion Cycle (Roof, 2021), Across the Vapor Gulf (New Directions, 2017), The Sri Lankan Loxodrome (New Directions, 2009) and Compression & Purity (City Lights, 2011). Refractive Africa (Granta, 2022) is his first UK publication.
Maggie O’Sullivan, poet, artist, editor, publisher, has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. She is the editor of out of everywhere – linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America and the UK (Reality Street, 1996). Her works include In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 1993), eXcLa with Bruce Andrews (Writers Forum, 1993), red shifts (etruscan, 2001), Palace of Reptiles (The Gig, 2003), all origins are lonely (veer, 2003), Body of Work (Reality Street, 2006), ALTO (Veer, 2009), murmur – tasks of mourning (Veer, 2011), Waterfalls (Reality Street, 2012), courtship of lapwings (if p then q, 2021). The Salt Companion to Maggie O’Sullivan (Salt Publishing, 2011) contains essays by international scholars and poets on her work.
