THIS PLACE, TO ALL PLACES LINKED: JOURNEYING WITH DANTE

What does it feel like ‘to belong’ to a place? What does it mean to be ‘from somewhere’? How do our feelings about a place change when we leave it? How is it that every place is both unique and connected to everywhere else? How can rewriting a famous old poem help with life’s big challenges, including illness?

In this performance, poet Kimbery Campanello will take audiences on a journey through her new version of Dante’s Divine Comedy, written based on her experience of young onset Parkinson’s disease, her birthplace and origins, and her real and imagined movements across time and space – from Elkhart, Indiana, to Dante’s medieval Florence, to the Ness of Brodgar, a prehistoric settlement on Orkney, to the meet-up spot between Henry the VIII and Yorkshire rebels, now the entrance to the Fulford Aldi parking lot, and to Seacroft, this place, to all places linked.

Kimberly Campanello is the author of the poetry-object and durational performance MOTHERBABYHOME. Her latest poetry collection An Interesting Detail was released in 2025, as was her debut novel Use the Words You Have. She is Professor of Poetry and Director of Poetry@Leeds at the University of Leeds. Campanello is currently creating a new version of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which has been supported by the William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Presented at ChapelFM Arts Centre in partnership with:
The Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds
The National Poetry Centre
Damselfish Productions

In addition to this performance, Kimberly Campanello will be offering creative writing workshops at Chapel FM on dates TBD. To receive announcements about ChapelFM creative writing workshops in the coming months, please email info@chapelfm.co.uk with the heading “cwWorkshops”.