Tom Pow: Encounters with Simone Weil

Name: Tom Pow: Encounters with Simone Weil
Start: 2026-06-11T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-11T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Tweed Marquee

Tom Pow's poems engage with philosopher Simone Weil's brief but profound life. The Vulnerability of Precious Things offers imaginative empathy for the thinker.

Friday, 12 June 2026

5:00pm ‐ 6:00pm

Tweed Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

https://tikt.link/tompow

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Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) was one of the 20th century’s most significant thinkers. She died of tuberculosis and self-induced starvation, as she refused to eat more than those in Occupied France. Albert Camus called her ‘the greatest mind of the age’. She has continued to inspire such figures as Patti Smith and, most recently, Rosalía, for her ideas on affliction, attention and force are as vital now as they were when she described them. Tom Pow’s poems (or ‘encounters’) engage with her short life and times. The resulting work The Vulnerability of Precious Things - varied, thought-provoking and moving - is a work of imaginative empathy that makes clear Weil’s relevance to the world today.