“I Meant It To Be A Poem About Sparrows”: Unveiling The Painting

work in progress; artist Claire Beynon

In 2013 I featured a Tuesday Poem series on ekphrastic poems (aka poems in response to works of art) and completed the series with a ‘counter-culture’: a work of art developed in response to a poem.

The poem was The Sparrows, from my sequence in response to the Christchurch earthquake of February 22nd, 2011; the artwork was by artist and fellow Tuesday Poet Claire Beynon and first shown as part of her 2011 En Masse exhibition.

This year, Claire gifted the p...