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If you look very closely the poem will paint itself
Andra Simons responds
Institute of Contemporary Arts
Andra Simons performing at Philip Guston: Live Performance Programme, Tate Modern, 2024. 

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Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985 – 2025

Poet Andra Simons’ method of turning to art for inspiration has proven invaluable when wordless. In 2023-24 he was invited to respond to Philip Guston’s Passage and Monument at Tate Modern, reading for unsuspecting audiences. Here he’ll be reading in response to Marlene Smith’s newly commissioned artwork for Connecting Thin Black Lines

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Bio
Andra Simons is a Bermudian writer and performer living in London, UK. He studied theatre in Toronto, Canada. Andra’s first collection of poetry, The Joshua Tales (Treehouse Press) was published in 2009 and Turtlemen (Copy Press) recently published in 2021. Andra has held workshops and lectured at various universities in the UK. He has also been published in several magazines, journals and anthologies as well as performed at numerous events, venues and festivals. Andra was Writer-in-Residence 2022-2023 at the University of Greenwich. He also given an Honorable Mention for the Bermuda Literary Award’s Cecile N. Musson Prize for Poetry, 2023
 
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04:00 pm
Sun, 10 Aug 2025
Lower Gallery
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