Jack Arts

Faber: Poetry Underlined

On National Poetry Day, Faber launched their Poetry Underlined project which created moments for past and present Faber poets to collide on the page. Curated conversations between heritage poets and contemporary voices were shared alongside original artwork online and offline.

JACK ARTS worked with Faber to place these lines of poetry in unusual and unexpected everyday places across the UK using our hand-picked street poster sites. With original artwork created by artist and wood engraver Duncan Montgomery and set by designer Amy Lines, these poets were in dialogue with each other across time and space in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester, and Sheffield.

From Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Ted Hughes to Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Richard Scott and Isabelle Baafi, it was inspiring to host the meetings of these artists, the streets they found themselves on, and passersby encountering poetry at every turn.