Wakefield Dante

Wakefield: Heaven, Purgatory or Hell? From Isolation, via Education, to Harmony is a project led by the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies in collaboration with the Education Department at Wakefield Cathedral and the Black Horse Poets and asks whether images of community found in a poem written over 700 years ago might still resonate today, and, if so, in what ways.

Members of the local community were invited to submit photographs and poems which explore these ideas.  The Leeds Centre for Dante Studies also led a fascinating afternoon of discussion and reflection on these issues at the Mirfield Centre in April.  Some of the images and poems received were displayed in the cathedral in May 2016; all the poems received and some more of the images can be seen via this page.  We hope that they will all provoke further reflection on the idea of communities.