Poem House

Place Where Thought Happens

‘I believe that every poem contains, or implies, the proposal that another world is possible…..A world of dwelling’   John Burnside, A Poet’s Polemic, 2003

This project explores the hinterland of living sculpture between poetry, architecture and ecology in a collaboration between architect Tom Morton, visual artist Brigid Collins, poet Larry Butler and jeweler Teena Ramsay.

The project experimented with form, word, meaning and the potential of process in collaboration between artistic disciplines. Among other possibilities, the project aimed to define an architect’s brief in the form of a poem, leading to the creation of a building.