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Jasmine’s Kingdom
Squad grad Jasmine Simms has created a triptych of poems, Kingdoms. The poems, written specifically for three locations in Durham – Clayport Library, Durham Station and TESTT Space – have been painted as murals by Durham University alumnus Lily Arnold and now form a ‘literary trail’ as part of the festival. Inspired by A Room of One’s Own, the poems explore the idea of buildings and spaces as ‘autonomous’, imbued with their own memory and consciousness. What does it mean to have lived in a place? In the end, do the places we occupy begin to occupy us?