Watch the video below of the TORCH Book at Lunchtime online webinar on Tenter written by Susie Campbell.
Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held fortnightly during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all.
The writing of Tenter came out of Susie's time as poet-in-residence for the University of Oxford/Oxford Brookes 2017-18 Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Series Post-War: Commemoration, Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and responds to what she sees as an ethical crisis in current commemorative practice. 'Tenter' refers both to the person who stretches cloth, and to the framework on which fabric is held taut and is secured by 'tenter-hooks'. The backdrop of the commemorative Bayeux Tapestry, its stitches, darns, stains and repairs, provides the template for poems which explore the making of public and private histories while reflecting on war, memory and grief. Tenter is illustrated by artist and archeologist Rose Ferraby, who uses monoprinting to explore the textiles and landscapes of the poems.
