Manchester Metropolitan University invited work for an exhibition by postgraduate research students. Writer and journalist Joe Shute, who is investigating the River Irk in Manchester, and I collaborated together to perform and display poems in a piece called ‘River Voices’. We each read a poem about our respective rivers at the opening night and displayed river poems on the plinths of the sculptural piece. We had put a call out for river poems with Manchester Poetry Library and were delighted with the resulting contributions. We also invited visitors to contribute their poem during the week long exhibit at the old Cornerhouse in Manchester. With their permission I displayed the poems of the stitchers for The Lugg Embroideries, namely Robert Crompton, Maggie Crompton and Rose Tinted Rags. As well as contributing and replenishing the flow of poems, the audience were invited to take poems away during the exhibtion and the remainder left over, were later given to the Poetry Library.
The Lugg Embroideries 
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