Symphony Hall

Book now for Quartet for the End of Time, 9th December. Pre-concert talk with Fiona Sampson, Kathy Hinde and Julie Boden at 6.15pm.  Concert begins 7.30pm. (Town Hall, Birmingham)  ...visuals...poetry readings... music ... conversation and questions. THSH

Also Check out Tristran and Isolde on 10th December at Symphony Hall. Zoe Tucker will have her poem in the programme.

I have been the poet in residence at Symphony Hall, Birmingham since January 2005.  During the last few years we have set up a Playing with Words programme where members of the public and well known writers are invited to place poems into programmes, exhibit their work, read and take part in pre- concert talks, to write poetic responses to the place, its people and to the wonderful music that is played there.  I was introduced to the Symphony Hall audience as the Poet in Residence, in the Symphony Hall Diary (Winter 04-05) and to the general public in various newspapers and magazines. Originally the residency was set to run for two years but I'm still in post and we are planning events for the future.  Poems sent to us continue to be put onto the THSH website, in programmes and on Playing with Words board. If you have been inspired by a concert or by the venue itself and you would like your poem to be considered for publication in one of these ways then please do email your poem to me: julie@julieboden.co.uk

It has been my pleasure to work in a first class venue with first rate people , staff, artists and a warm and welcoming audience.  I was happy to invite David Hart to exhibit a series of his photographs and poetry inspired by a Debussy and Mahler concert. Many poets have had their poetry printed in various concert programmes and a group of women writers were involved in the Bluebeard's Wives project inspired by a concert of Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle.  I will be writing a summary of the Bluebeard's Wives project (which was originally entitled: Behind the Doors) and including it in the Poetry Projects Archive section.  For now though, if you'd like to know more about this project, you can follow the link to my interview about it on Woman's Hour and read some of the poems associated with the project on the THSH website.

Coming soon - photos and poems...