Produced on the occasion of the exhibition CAConrad & Anna Mendelssohn: the poem that could not wait at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1-24 May, 2026.
Since her death in 2009, Mendelssohn’s work has gained the interest of audiences through an increasing array of publication and exhibition contexts. American poet CAConrad spent time among the University of Sussex’s archives that hold an extraordinary store of Mendelssohn’s distinctive drawn and handwritten manuscripts. They prepared nine of their own poems to be presented and, with Iain Morrison, selected nine of Mendelssohn’s previously unpublished works to reproduce alongside theirs at their trademark larger-than-human scale.























