An evening of poetry on National Poetry Day
Marking the first public event for Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden, poet Suzannah V. Evans and curator Guy Robertson come together at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery to explore Hodgkin’s art through poetry and scholarship.
Evans’s debut collection Under the Blue takes inspiration from Hodgkin, with its cover featuring his luminous painting Water (2016). Her poems, which weave together themes of life, art, and intimacy, create a striking dialogue with Hodgkin’s prints. Robertson, editor of the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Hodgkin’s prints and works on paper for the Estate of Howard Hodgkin, offers unparalleled insight into the artist’s practice and legacy.
Together, Evans and Robertson will illuminate the connections between Hodgkin’s visual and emotional language, inviting audiences to see his art afresh through words and scholarship.
About Suzannah V. Evans
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, researcher, and educator. Her debut poetry collection is Under the Blue (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2025). She is the author of Brightwork and Marine Objects / Some Language, and the editor of All Keyboards are Legitimate: Versions of Jules Laforgue (Guillemot Press). A chapter of her work appears in Carcanet’s anthology New Poetries VIII. Her poetry has been awarded the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and a Northern Writers’ Award, performed at international festivals, and broadcast on BBC Radio.
About Guy Robertson
Guy Robertson is a curator and writer based between London and Spoleto, Italy, where in 2015 he was Founding Director of the Mahler & LeWitt Studios – a programme of residencies, exhibitions, performances, publications and events based around the former studios of Anna Mahler and Sol LeWitt, as well as the Torre Bonomo.
He ran an acclaimed project space in Peckham, London, called Son Gallery (2010-2013), was curator of the Anna Mahler Association (2011-2014), and was founder and curator of the artist’s book fair, Copeland Book Market (2012-2015) which had its home on Bold Tendencies, London.
Robertson also works as an art historian and is currently writing a catalogue raisonné for the Howard Hodgkin Legacy Trust on the artist’s prints and works on paper (Art Publishing Inc. and Fort Worth Museum, forthcoming).
