Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’

Mike Tooby writes about the background to a new exhibition in Margate

by Mike Tooby 23rd February 2018

‘Journeys with “The Waste Land”’ an exhibition I initiated as a curator, has recently opened at the Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate. After six years of planning, it has so far been well attended and received, though inevitably some negative reaction has also come our way. Its starting point is that T S Eliot spent a few weeks in Margate in the autumn of 1921, where he wrote significant elements of his great poem, published in 1922.