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Four poets.

One orchestra.

A night where poetry meets music in all its intensity, beauty and defiance.

Joelle Taylor, Salena Godden, Anthony Anaxagorou and Jay Bernard bring their original writing to the stage alongside members of Royal Northern Sinfonia.Original poems, commissioned for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes Festival, set to modern classical music.

Words collide with strings, rhythms shift and voices find new force in the sound around them.

From the haunting stillness of Messiaen to the restless pulse of Steve Reich, this is a meeting of artistic worlds that invites you to listen differently.Sympoesia was originally commissioned and presented by Southbank Centre and London Sinfonietta for Multitudes Festival.

The Glasshouse presentation is supported by New Writing North.