Frieze Talks Explores the Written Word

Poet Holly Pester interprets our invitation from the outer depths

At the Hepworth Wakefield, the artist’s large-scale compositions and intimate miniatures on book covers conjure a subtle and imaginative realm

The visual artist on forging connections across Europe through music and verse

Artists and writers remember ‘the people’s poet’, whose prolific career foregrounded the power of the pen in engaging meaningful social commentary

Lingering in the ‘instant before music’, the poet and novelist’s new collection is grounded by sharp materiality

At Amant, New York, a survey of the artist's work commemorates the verse of poets censured by governments through sculpture and installations

The London artist revisits the last two decades in celebration of Frieze’s 20th anniversary, with a specially commissioned new poem from James Massiah

Other highlights include the return of Zamrock band WITCH, Ben Lerner’s divisive book of poetry and a piano interlude with Mahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou

To celebrate the recent release of her memoir, The Lives of Artists, the author shares a list of literary works that have inspired her

Frieze returns to the Korean capital this year with an expanded line-up for Frieze Film, an initiative supporting the city’s non-profit spaces, talks and the debut of Frieze Music