when: 08 - 28 February 2026 | | cost: Free | address: Knox St Chippendale NSW 2008 Australia
published: 11 Feb 2026, 5 min read
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Vessels of Love is an annual poetry program presented by Poetry Sydney that seeks to explore ideas and forms of love over the week of Valentine's Day, 8-14 February.
This year's program focuses thematically on love's forces of abundance and decay through the poetic works of seven Australian artists: Faye Couros, Willo Drummond, Martin Edmond, Ethan Price (Ester McDonald), Pooja Mittal Biswas, Michele Seminara, and through the guardianship of Lenore Bassan, Minnie Agnes Filson (1898-1971).
Moving through gothic folktale, autobiography, eco-poetics, found poetry, magical realism, body horror and absurdism, Vessels of Love 2026 channels worlds where love sustains and destroys, feeds on itself, and creates its own environment. Harnessing poetry's reach into film, sound and visual art, the collection captures love as a living, shifting force: love is perpetual motion, existing between the overwhelming richness of connection and the inevitable transformations of time. Rather than resolving the tension between abundance and decay, these works inhabit it: the two are dance partners, each giving the other meaning, each making the other possible. Together, they occupy the space between what love is and what it does-between symbolism and lived experience, memory and fiction, the personal and the mythic.
Each of the films featured in the Vessels of Love 2026 poetry film collection are made in collaboration between this year's feature artists and The Salons, with the following guest artists: printmaker Lenore Bassan (for Challenge), and collage artist Deby Cann (for æther).
The full collection of poetry films and spoken word recordings will be available to enjoy online. Selected works appear in a range of spaces throughout February: visit Knox St Bar, Chippendale for Poetry Sydney's Exhibition Program (featuring the Poem Phone and street window Poetry Gallery) and Intelligent Animal's DIP window gallery in Darlington.
Vessels of Love 2026 at the Knox St Bar Exhibition Program - presented by Poetry Sydney, curated by The Salons.
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Vessels of Love is an annual poetry program presented by Poetry Sydney that seeks to explore ideas and forms of love over the week of Valentine's Day, 8-14 February.
This year's program focuses thematically on love's forces of abundance and decay through the poetic works of seven Australian artists: Faye Couros, Willo Drummond, Martin Edmond, Ethan Price (Ester McDonald), Pooja Mittal Biswas, Michele Seminara, and through the guardianship of Lenore Bassan, Minnie Agnes Filson (1898-1971).
Moving through gothic folktale, autobiography, eco-poetics, found poetry, magical realism, body horror and absurdism, Vessels of Love 2026 channels worlds where love sustains and destroys, feeds on itself, and creates its own environment. Harnessing poetry's reach into film, sound and visual art, the collection captures love as a living, shifting force: love is perpetual motion, existing between the overwhelming richness of connection and the inevitable transformations of time. Rather than resolving the tension between abundance and decay, these works inhabit it: the two are dance partners, each giving the other meaning, each making the other possible. Together, they occupy the space between what love is and what it does-between symbolism and lived experience, memory and fiction, the personal and the mythic.
Each of the films featured in the Vessels of Love 2026 poetry film collection are made in collaboration between this year's feature artists and The Salons, with the following guest artists: printmaker Lenore Bassan (for Challenge), and collage artist Deby Cann (for æther).
The full collection of poetry films and spoken word recordings will be available to enjoy online. Selected works appear in a range of spaces throughout February: visit Knox St Bar, Chippendale for Poetry Sydney's Exhibition Program (featuring the Poem Phone and street window Poetry Gallery) and Intelligent Animal's DIP window gallery in Darlington.
Vessels of Love 2026 at the Knox St Bar Exhibition Program - presented by Poetry Sydney, curated by The Salons.
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Vessels of Love 2026 is on 08 - 28 February 2026. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Chippendale.
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