Last week I toured the historic Dragon Hall in Norwich and attended a poetry event there hosted by the Poetry Translation Centre. This medieval building was built around 1427 on the site of a previous structure and was owned by Robert Toppes, a merchant who used it to store and display his goods. The fact that its wooden timbers are so close together is a sign of his wealth, because although the materials were expensive, he used more than was needed to hold up the building. The National Centre for Writing has been based in Dragon Hall since 2015. You can read more about the Hall and writing centre on their page: Dragon Hall. At the Polylingual Poetry Open Mic, eleven poets shared work in languages including English, Spanish, Portuguese, Burmese, Finnish, Japanese, Swedish, French, German, and bird! (Yes, one poet performed in birdsong.) I read a couple of poems by Ingrid Sjöstrand that I translated into English.
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| Historic Dragon Hall in Norwich |
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| Great Hall |
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| One of the dragons |
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| Doorway to nowhere |
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| Fathima Zahra at Polylingual Poetry |
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| Midori Takahashi |
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| Ko Ko Thett |
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| My reading |
And here's Saint Julian's church in Norwich, where I stopped on the way to Dragon Hall. Thanks for reading!
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| St Julian's, Norwich |
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