The Republics – Online Screening

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From 2 - 12 August 2021, The Republics will be available to view here on PEER’s website to mark the final two weeks of Swirl of Words / Swirl of Worlds, an exhibition, public programme and poetry publication that expansively and intimately explores how language shapes and informs cultural and individual identities. The project takes as its starting point Stephen Watts’ A Bibliography of Modern Poetry In English Translation, an ambitious database of poetry from over 250 languages that is available in book form in English translation. For the Swirl of Words / Swirl of Worlds poetry book Watts gathered 116 poems in 94 languages to create a kind of poetry map of Hackney, each one representing a language spoken in the borough. 3,000 copies of this book have been made available for free to Hackney Library members.


The Republics (2020) is a B&W 16mm artists’ film by Huw Wahl, drawn from Stephen Watts’ poetry book Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds published by Prototype. The film and book explore landscape, history, memory and the power of words to celebrate and resist.

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