Poetry Archives - Kurt Jackson

2024 Round Up

news — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:22:00 +0000

We have welcomed another 30,000 visitors to our exhibitions at the Jackson Foundation over the course of 2024, while further afield, Kurt has had exhibitions at The Base at Greenham, The National Maritime Museum Falmouth and Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance.

Two new monographs were released this year, Kurt Jackson’s Rivers and Oak, and Kurt was left speechless after being named both an Honorary Commodore by The National Maritime Museum and a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh for promoting Cornish Identity and Culture through Visual Art and Poetry. Less welcome events were a leak in the Jackson Foundation roof short-circuiting the electrics and Kurt requiring a knee replacement. Both these things seem to be mended though, so fingers crossed…

2024 has seen the Jackson Foundation ramp up it’s educational programme, with students from across the country taking part in cross-curricular workshops with our new education officer. If you or your organisation are interested in finding out more about our educational offering, please get in touch!

2025 is shaping up to be a typically busy year within Kurt Jackson’s orbit, with two new exhibitions at the Jackson Foundation and a couple of (to be announced) shows at other interesting venues. Meanwhile, we encourage you to save the date of March 5th, with Kurt’s Biodiversity the inaugural exhibition at the newly transformed Royal Cornwall Museum Truro (details to follow in the New Year).

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for all of your support over the last 12 months, and to wish you a lovely Christmas! We look forward to seeing you all again soon!

For those of you in (or planning a visit to) Cornwall, please find the Jackson Foundation please find details of our opening schedule here.

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Caught By The River

news — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:00:00 +0000

The ever brilliant Caught by the River posted a poem from the Kurt Jackson’s Sea book.

Caught by the River have posted the Kurt Jackson poem Filthy Weather Makes Beautiful Seas which begins with the following verse:

Rain spotted, spattered, spitting patter
On a square of arm span canvas
Pewter skies
Gunmetal seas
And ochre, green, bone, ivory
Sienna, indigo, yellow
Marine tints and tones (stained)
A flowing tide approaching
My personal patch of sand

Please click here to read the full poem – www.caughtbytheriver.net/2022/01/filthy-weather-makes-beautiful-seas-a-poem-by-kurt-jackson

Caught by the River is an arts/nature/culture clash which lives at caughtbytheriver.net. It began as an idea, a vision and a daydream shared between friends one languid bankside spring afternoon. Conceived as an online meeting place for pursuits of a distinctly non-digital variety — walking, fishing, looking, thinking, birdsong and beer, adventure and poetry; life’s small pleasures, in all their many flavours — it was, and still is, about stepping out of daily routines to re-engage with nature. Finding new rhythms. Being.

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8pm Thursday Evening

news — Mon, 18 May 2020 12:14:33 +0000

“I am writing this on a Thursday morning – a beautiful, sunny late Spring morning. This evening once again we will all troop outside our homes in our millions across the country to shout and clap, to show our thanks to the NHS.

Here in rural West Cornwall its quite extraordinary, standing on a hill in the dusk with the distant banging of pots and pans, the applause and musical instruments drifting across the parish, along the coast, all competing with the birds and livestock, it is quite beautiful.”

8pm Thursday evening

A thank you to the NHS
A rural chorus
Drums
The saucepan tattoo
Competes with the trill of a wren
And the faint sheep’s bleating calls
And the raucous jackdaws going to roost
In the valley sycamores
The ululations, the old horns
And applause
All drifts across the parish
Over the hedges
And fields
Along the coastal plain
A disparate choir
An orchestra of thanks
Sending their heartfelt praise

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