Nols Nathankski's field recording of day 1 of the crypt gallery residency.

Nols has created a series of poetry prompts on day 1 of the residency.

Poets are welcome to come to the crypt between 16th - 20th February 2026 to create poems and perform them under penance conditions.

Prompts.

1. Write a poem to the people underground who are not sleeping.
2. Write a prayer to say goodbye to winter.
3. Write a poem to say hello to the spirits in this tomb.
4. Write a poem you could carve into the inside of your coffin
5. Write a sonnet to an unloved place
6. Write a ballad of two lovers that meet in the crypt
7. write a pome describing how being here feels use only taste, touch and smell.
8. Find a place in the crypt. Stand there until a poem comes to you. Write.
9. Make a poem for the front doors of the crypt.
10. Make a last will and testament - but as a poem.
11. Make a poem to whisper into a wall. Go and whisper it in the crypt.
12. Find a word to sum up the crypt. Use it 5 times in your poem.
13. Write a poem from the perspective of the cold.
14. Make a poem out of fragments of words from the crypt.
15. Make a poem for whatever is behind this vent.

Nols meets various visitors to the crypt over the course of the day.

Teresa Rendall pops in to make a podcast and the pair make poems together as well as read some of Teresa's poem's together.

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