Permanence

Join us for the launch of ‘Permanence’, a series of startling, surreal poems that trace the role of plastic from wonder substance to global menace.

This collaboration, by chemist and poet Stephen Paul Wren and Devon poet Lesley Curwen dives into the unseen molecular world, to witness the leaching of everyday plastics into blood, brain and every part of the living world.

Praise for Permanence:Rishi Dastidar: ‘The poems are gripping, unapologetically direct in showing us our dependence on the material, and the damage this has wrought.’Mario Petrucci: ‘The chimaera-driven microscopic perspectives and unsentimental spareness of the language make it tenaciously memorable.’Greta Stoddart: ‘Throughout these poems there is a lightness of touch, a deft imagining of future dread scenarios, where there might be placed a small bead of hope somewhere in the overwhelming detritus.’