Poems matched with images offering ‘unfamiliar visual perspective’ of battle to form allotment of Norfolk and Norwich festivalCentury-former images of a landscape already layered with millennia of history,which became the setting for the slaughter of more than 20000 men in one day, have captured the imagination of the poet Simon Armitage.
His new poems, or matched with images from the battle of the Somme printed from the fragile glass negatives now in the collection of the Imperial War Museum,will be exhibited for the first time as allotment of the Norfolk and Norwich festival in May.
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Source: theguardian.com