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The Itinerant Poetry Library
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A guerrilla public library service, reaching the parts other libraries have yet to reach. 14 countries, 500+ locations worldwide: Come Join Before We Travel on! @librarian #TIPL @theitinerantpoetrylibrary
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Delighted2 welcome 6 new Valued Patrons @ today's Library in #norwich w some @salenagodden.bsky.social James Kirkup Kathleen Raine Herbert Burke @barbtetenbaum.bsky.social Gertrude Stein Lawrence Bradby & co. amongst today's library items, special thanks2 @rachelmcw.bsky.social 4 libr* assist #tipl
The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is sitting behind the library table, holding up a membership card to inspect it and the person attempting to join the library (who remains out of the frame) The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is reaching across the library table to point to a specific title. A new Valued Patron of the Library, wearing a puffer jacket and woolly hat leans in to inspect the title. The Itinerant Poetry Librarian and a new Valued Patron of the Library between them hold a long scroll, stretching across the room, on which is inscribed an Allen Ginsberg poem. The Itinerant Poetry Librarian is sitting at the library table, next to them on the table appear the signs "Open" and "Free Poetry Library: Join Before we travel on".
October 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Happy #nationalpoetryday, esp. those of you IN (or who can get to) NORWICH…we’ll be iterating over to NR2 for (belated) celebrations! Come Join Before We Travel On! 05.10.25, 2-4pm. 16 Newmarket Street, Norwich, NR2 2DW. With magical library assistance from @rachelmcw Map: bit.ly/library-05-1...
Image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian standing in front of an orange coloured wall holding up a magazine from the Library's collection. The signs "Open" and "Library and Archive" are attached to the wall next to the Librarian.
October 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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RIP Tony Harrison...newly arrived in the library last week! "The best clock's only wound for layings out / so the stillness isn't tapped at by its ticks. / The settee's shapeless underneath its shroud. // My mind moves over silence and Aeneid VI."
Cover image of Tony Harrison's poetry pamphlet "Eloquence", title text embedded in red rectangle. Title page of Tony Harrison's "Eloquence" dedicated "To Gordon, much love T. 2/91" Text of Tony Harrison's poem "Study"
September 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Is it an external journey to the end of the night?
Hong Kong skyline at night, view from balcony
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"As Apollinaire describes in Zone, on a morning walk: 'You read the handbills the catalogues the singing posters / So much for poetry this morning and the prose is in the papers". #TIPL
Picture of a mobile library operating on Macau Traffic cone with text "World Genius" Roads to Happy valley and Kowloon with skyscrapers in the background Sign in Hong Kong central library reading: "Reference library: Except with the permission of the librarian or when accompanied by an adult, a person under 12 years of age again not enter or use the reference library."
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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"A book is a library. In turn, a library is a town, full of handouts, colour adverts, covers of magazines and fence-like screens."... #TIPL
Library stamp from Hong Kong Central library Cityscape view of skyscrapers and blue sky Black and white photograph, view of harbour looking out over boats moored towards backdrop of skyscrapers Black and white photograph, harbour view with skyscrapers in background
April 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Absolute banger at tonight's @britishlibrary.bsky.social "Libraries and AI" event by @cilip.bsky.social CILIP president Sue Lacey Bryant with excellent #librariantakedown of cardigan stereotype. Felt like a CILIP prez ready to wrestle for the cause (we're with you all the way pal 💪)!
Picture of speakers on stage at British Library event "Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? Held at British Library, London on Thursday 23 January 2025. The panellists for this event were: Sue Lacey Bryant, President of CILIP, Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Information Mobilisation at Manchester Metropolitan University; Svein Arne Brygfjeld, Special Advisor on AI at the National Library of Norway; Rob Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation at the National Library of Scotland; Dr Tom Chatfield, author and tech philosopher; Dr Mia Ridge Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections at the British Library. Picture of speakers on stage at British Library event "Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? Held at British Library, London on Thursday 23 January 2025. The panellists for this event were: Sue Lacey Bryant, President of CILIP, Visiting Professor in Knowledge and Information Mobilisation at Manchester Metropolitan University; Svein Arne Brygfjeld, Special Advisor on AI at the National Library of Norway; Rob Cawston, Director of Digital and Service Transformation at the National Library of Scotland; Dr Tom Chatfield, author and tech philosopher; Dr Mia Ridge Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections at the British Library.
January 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Back in 2006, in an Antwerp bathhouse, where we were operating in our 1st year of being, we lent out “The Heart of the Ancient Balcony” & the borrower became recalcitrant, never returning this item (yes, we’re talking about you, Xavier Roelens, our first ever entrant to The Library Wall of Shame!).
The colophon page of Glyn Pursglove's "The Heart of The Ancient Balcony", published by Writer's Forum 1977 Front cover of "The Heart of the Ancient Balcony" Page 12 of "The Heart of the Ancient Balcony", reading "Is not the fat valuable?" Page 10 of "The Heart of the Ancient Balcony" reading "What has the girl got on?"
October 3, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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Rotterdam library operations continue! Come Join Before We Travel On #TIPL
June 8, 2024 at 7:52 PM
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We've moved on! Next up is a guerilla OG library operation, as #PIFR don't know we coming 😂 (ok we tagged them so they do now lol). Come find us somewhere in the building... rumour is the toilet block requires reading material 😉 Opening ASAP (better get a move on!): Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL
Image of The Librarian with information about today's library which is at LantarenVester 20:00hrs+
June 7, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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Boom! First library location of the day in the bag! We'll be opening @leeszaalwest (Rijnhoutplein 3, 3014 TZ Rotterdam) from 14hrs: Come Join Before We Travel On! #TIPL
June 7, 2024 at 7:39 AM
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Rotterdammers: Your library returns!
June 7, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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Come Get Your Library On! We're delighted to be opening at the British Library this Friday (Oct 13), for their Steampunk Lates event. We'll have a special selection of The Itinerant Poetry Library tomes: Come Join B4 We Travel On! #TIPL
Poster image of The Itinerant Poetry Librarian promoting an event at The British Library (Steampunk Lates) on Friday October 13th, 19:30-22:30hrs
October 12, 2023 at 9:15 PM