Friday Lates tour and poetry readings: SJ Fowler and guests

Event information

• Type: Talks & conversations
• Date: Friday, 24 July 2026
• Tickets: Free
• Location: The National Gallery
• Address: Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN, UK
• Official page: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/friday-lates-tour-and-poetry-readings-sj-fowler-and-guests-24-07-2026

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About

For centuries, the art forms of painting and poetry have been in dialogue, each informing the other, while artists and poets have often attempted to translate their unique essence.

Poet and performer SJ Fowler returns to the Gallery to read new poems written in response to paintings, offering alternative interpretations of their meaning, history and standing of some of our earliest Italian Renaissance paintings.

Fowler is joined by invited guests from Writers’ Kingston, including students from Kingston University and further afield, for a tour and poetry performances around the Gallery. For this tour we welcome Sofia Barth, Eve Davis, Colin Herd and Duya Ribeiro.

SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and performer, whose work explores an expansive idea of poetry and literature — the textual, visual, asemic, concrete, sonic, collaborative, performative, improvised, curatorial — through over 50 publications, performances in 40 countries, four large-scale event programmes, numerous commissions, collaborations and more. His work has been commissioned by the National Gallery, Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, London Sinfonietta, the Southbank Centre, National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum and Liverpool Biennial.