Poetry exhibition brings street art to building site

POETRY and photographs of Sheffield in bygone days have gone on show in The Moor, which is currently the centre of a major regeneration project.

Sheffield’s new market is soon set to be built on one end of the shopping street, while a planning application for a new £15m retail development at the other end of the precinct is set to be agreed next week.

Now, 10 verses from the poetry collection Gossipy Gob and other Sheffield Poems, by award-winning writer Michael Glover, have been displayed on hoardings surrounding one side of the site earmarked for the new markets building.

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Mr Glover said: “It’s a real honour to have my work in such a prominent position in my home city. I love Sheffield and my memories of The Moor are still so vivid and full of life. It’s great to know my poems are woven into the fabric of area as it regenerates.””

Born in 1949, the poet lived in Fir Vale for the first 19 years of his life, before winning a scholarship to Cambridge University.

He is now a poet, art critic and editor of international poetry forum The Bow-Wow Shop.

Two of the poems displayed on the six-feet-high hoardings are taken from his new book Only So Much.

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Meanwhile, councillors are set to agree plans next week for a new retail development in the former McDonalds restaurant on The Moor, opposite Debenhams.

If planning permission is granted, the current building would be demolished and a three-storey glass building erected in its place.