Poems4oceans

POEMS4OCEANS: is a moving image, photography and poetry installation.

London poets have created poems inspired by the beauty and plight of the oceans. The audio-visual poems will be projected onto three large screens y that will take over the entire Strand Gallery space.

Presented by YOUYOU Mentoring they teamed young, emerging poets with the British award-winning film composer, Sacha Puttnam, and leading international visual artists, including National Portrait Gallery photographer and filmmaker, Venetia Dearden, underwater photographer, Jem Cresswell, Korean photographer Mijoo Kim, and Mexican poet and artist, Alexandra Duran.

The poets have produced work on a variety of themes and poetry genres to feature poems on plastic ocean pollution and humpback whales to the women sea divers of Korea, and travels around the British coastline.