Olympic Tales: I
London’s Olympic Park is not only the major site for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, it is also home to a new poetry installation. An initiative of William Sieghart, founder of the UK’s National Poetry Day, the Winning Words installation aims to ‘celebrate and promote poetry’.
One of the poems animating Olympic Park is David Malouf’s ‘At a School Athletics Day’.
Sieghart hopes that Winning Words will, in the future, ‘carpet the nation in poetry’ by encouraging villages, towns and cities across the UK to create their own poetry installations.
More information on Winning Words can be found here.