Feature: Talks - Pauline Seward and other poets at Torriano Meeting House on 30th January
Published: 27 January, 2011
IT was sparked by finding an old menu for a swanky restaurant in Holborn among the dusty shelves at the Holborn archives – now the work this discovery prompted will be heard at the Torriano Meeting House on Sunday.
Poet Pauline Seward scooped first prize in a competition organised by the Holborn Local Studies Archives team to write poetry on the basis of their artefacts.
Pauline said: “I went to the archive to look for something else an saw the competition. One of the archivists gave me a selection of items they had and I was struck by two menus dating from the First World War.
“I used it as a basis for a story of the poem.”
• Pauline Seward and other poets are reading at the Torriano Meeting House, Torriano Avenue, NW5, on Sunday at 7.30pm