A note on : TYPOETRY comes to a close at Applecart Arts

A beautiful afternoon in Newham, at Applecart Arts centre, a series of the poets from TYPOETRY came together to read their works and celebrate what has been a remarkable project that has done something with visual and experimental and public poetry that few projects in the capital, let alone Newham, ever have done.

For me it was grand to read the poems of some of the poets involved who weren’t there, to meet Laura Accerboni, who travelled to the UK from Switzerland and to say out loud that the day belonged to David Killian Beck, who originated TYPOETRY and worked so hard to make it happen