Renewal Poster Poems

With the assistance of funding from the Biodiversity and People Network, RENEW team members John Wedgwood Clarke and Lucy Mercer worked with independent publisher Prototype to commission eight poets to produce a set of limited-edition poster poems on the theme of renewal, ecology and interconnectedness.

Folders: Gmund Les Naturals, Sable, 330gsm, with letter pressed text in white ink | Posters: Munken Pure Rough Cream, 150gsm, risograph printed in blue ink.

A poster featuring a wren spouting a complex spiral poetic meanderings.

restless, half-remembered, sometimes, our asynchronous discontinuities (64 bpm) by Lucy Mercer and Jamie Shovlin.

A poster featuring poetry from John Wedgwood Clarke's collection. Slime tresses grown from grass blades ripple, almost water and grow algae, which traps slime which grows, algae which traps slime, the growth rings, spongy and bounding into fingers, with which to unpick, the history of fingers.

Mine Stream Weir by John Wedgwood Clarke.

Limited edition poetry in posters…

Printed in a limited edition of 75 sets, with eight posters presented inside a custom-made folder, the posters feature work by poets Rachael Allen, Sascha Aurora Akhtar, Genevieve Carver, John Wedgwood Clark, Bhanu Khapil, Lila Matsumoto, Lucy Mercer & Jamie Shovlin and Stephen Watts.

The posters were designed by Joe Haigh, and printed by Rory Cook at PageMasters and the London Centre for Book Arts.

The posters have been widely distributed and serve as contemplative and flexible objects that bring thinking about biodiversity and interconnectedness into interior spaces.

Each limited edition poster is available to purchase from Prototype publishing by following this link.