Weston Poets Join Southbank Centre’s A Poet In Every Port
Super Culture is pleased to share that Weston-super-Mare based poets, Gwyneth Herbert and Jaidah McDill, have been selected for the Southbank Centre’s flagship national project, A Poet in Every Port.
The project features a mobile ‘National Poetry Library’ traveling to 11 coastal towns across the UK, including Weston. Inspired by the traveling exhibitions of the 1951 Festival of Britain, the tour forms a key part of the Southbank Centre’s 75th-anniversary celebrations.
Gwyneth Herbert & Jaidah McDill join the newly formed New Poets Collective, supporting emerging talent in each region. They will lead free activities, celebrating local dialects and engaging the community to show that poetry is for everyone.
See them in action: The mobile National Poetry Library and our poets will feature in our flagship Whirligig Festival 06 – 07 June 2026.
About A Poet in Every Port
Led by the Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library in collaboration with 11 partners, A Poet In Every Port brings a selection of the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, alongside free public events, workshops and poetry readings to each nation of the UK, from North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, to Penzance in Cornwall; Bangor in Northern Ireland to Caernarfon in Wales. Weston-super-Mare is delighted to be one of the partner locations, led by arts organisation Super Culture.