As Glasgow School of Art launched 2014 Degree Show, Seen Through Smoke a work penned especially for the GSA by acclaimed poet, Ian Macmillan, was released.
McMillan was at a meeting of the Academy of Urbanism with Professor Brian Evans of the Mackintosh School of Architecture when news of the fire broke and has written the poem for the GSA.
SEEN THROUGH SMOKE
What is this, seen through smoke
As the room clears and the heat dies?
What is this, seen through darkness
Moving across the broken floors?
The longer you look the more it resolves
Into something built from Future and Hope
Because here is something with a beating heart
Here is creativity. Here is Art.
Ian
McMillan, June 2014
McMillan, June 2014
Described by The Guardian as “a force of nature,” Ian McMillan is one of the UK’s most high profile poets. He is currently a poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC, and has been English National Opera’s poet, UK Trade & Investment Poet, Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and Humberside Police’s Beat Poet. McMillan hosts the weekly show The Verb and Proms variation Adverb