This free performance will be beside the river in the Transit Shed. In Transit will share stories and histories from the River Exe, probing themes of colonialism, migration, industry and the environment. Tracing the movement of tides, and the movement of people, animals and goods, this mesmerising spoken word performance by Zimbabwean-born, London-based Zhawi will blend reflections on the Exe with her experiences of the Thames: two great rivers bound together by a shared history of trade.| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
Taking inspiration from work by Davina Quinlivan, produced during last year’s residency on a theme of ‘Threads’, Jeremy Speck has created a set of special prints, combining letterpress and screenprinting techniques, produced on Double Elephant Print Workshop‘s Albion press. These will be on display at Exeter Custom House until the end of March 2024. The Custom...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
During her Spring 2023 residency at Quay Words on the theme of ‘Threads’, Davina Quinlivan wrote this long prose piece, The Map Makers’ Daughters, and three poems which you can read here. Taking inspiration from Davina’s work, letterpress printer Jeremy Speck produced a set of special prints which are on display at Exeter Custom House...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
Buy now for £9 plus postage or purchase all three Anthologies so far for £15 We’re excited to launch our third anthology of new writing from the Quay Words live literature programme, animating the historic Exeter Custom House as a hub for literature in a UNESCO City of Literature. Included here are pieces by established...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
As part of Kim Squirrell’s summer 2023 Maritime residency at Quay Words, she has created a poetry & paper art trail around the Quayside and Canal Basin. This trail celebrates the ships and boats that have sailed into and out of Exeter, and the people of the quay and canal who work to support and...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
We were thrilled to host Sophie as our summer 2022 writer-in-residence exploring the Maritime theme. Here she shares her commissioned poem with us. Index of Exeter Quay/ From the blue door, I beckon 1. It’s here that I first read: Exeter is considered to have lost its route to the sea. 2. A woman is...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
Literature Works is excited to be reaching out to aspiring young writers in Exeter between the ages of 14 and 19 years, as we seek the city’s first Young City Laureate.| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
As a final commission for her Quay Words Summer residency on the theme of ‘Vessels’, Sarah Acton developed the spoken word piece ‘Book of the Exe’. by Sarah Acton, writer-in-residence for our July 2024 ‘Vessels’ Season During my summer residency I engaged with the theme through embodied writing and research practice, walking repeated circular routes,...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
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During her Spring 2023 residency at Quay Words on the theme of ‘Threads’, Davina Quinlivan wrote the below three poems, and a long prose piece, The Map Makers’ Daughters. Taking inspiration from Davina’s work, letterpress printer Jeremy Speck produced a set of special prints which are on display at Exeter Custom House in early 2024.| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
Davina Quinlivan is a Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The University of Exeter. Her memoir, Shalimar: A Story of Place and Migration, was recently published with Little Toller Books (2022) and her creative non-fiction essays and short stories have appeared in The Willowherb Review, Litro, Arty, The Clearing, Caught by The River, and in collaboration with The Countryside Alliance and The Museum of English Rural Life. Her work has featured as part of programmed, pu...| Quay Words at Exeter Custom House
