Evocative and haunting images by Scottish artist/filmmaker Ken Smyth are accompanied by live performances from the award-winning Kensal Rise poet Chrys Salt MBE, and internationally acclaimed saxophonist Richard Ingham. This trio of artists continue their 10-year collaboration in this timely multi-media performance that evokes war, and the losses of war, through a loving dialogue in poetry and letters between a pacifist mum and her soldier son. A unique and moving event.

(followed by a short Q&A with performers)

… a brilliantly eloquent meditation on the limits of language in the face of extremity. This is a work of urgent, universal relevance. Gerda Stevenson. Poet, writer, actress. BAFTA award winner

Based on Chrys’ collections Home Front/Front Line (Roncadora 2013) and Mr Kalashnikov Regrets… (Hatterick’s House 2020).