A hand is visible, holding a roller covered in gold ink and covering the surface of steel letters in the print-bed of the People Powered Press. The word reads, 'KIND'.

Mural Poems
2021 – 2025

Large-scale hand-printed murals for the Poetry & Print Garden and elsewhere, using the PPP's own typeface, GRAFT, designed by Oli Bentley

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

Using Graft, the People Powered Press typeface designed by Oli Bentley for 2018’s These Northern Types project, we have created a series of mural poems for installation at the PPP’s home on the busy Shipley Road.

A workshop participants rolls gold ink onto the steel letters of typeface GRAFT, spelling the word KIND.

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘What do you see in me’

a collaboration with The Lost Plot, a group based at Hyde Park Source, and pasted to the outside of their building in Leeds. This was the first of our poem murals exhibited at a site site other than the PPP Poetry & Print Garden, Apr 2025.

A mural featuring a poem written and hand-printed by members of Hyde Park Source, pasted to the outside wall of their building in Leeds.

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘I’ll vac for my dad’

a collaboration with students from Saltaire Primary School, Dec 2023

Mural featuring a poem written by students from Saltaire Primary School, pasted to the wall of the People Powered Press's Poetry & Print Garden, Shipley

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘With our deeds undone’

by Poet in Residence Antony Dunn, May 2023

Mural featuring a poem by Antony Dunn, pasted to the wall of the People Powered Press's Poetry & Print Garden, Shipley

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘Hope can be the mending’

a collaboration with Commoners Choir, Dec 2022

Mural featuring lyrics from a song by the Commoners Choir, pasted to the wall of the People Powered Press's Poetry & Print Garden, Shipley

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘Eighteen Miles’

an extract from the prize-winning poem by local writer Emma Storr, Sep 2022

Mural featuring an extract of a poem by local writer Emma Storr, pasted to the wall of the People Powered Press's Poetry & Print Garden, Shipley

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘We were made for this'

by Poet in Residence Antony Dunn, Sep 2021

Mural featuring a poem by Antony Dunn, pasted to the wall of the People Powered Press's Poetry & Print Garden, Shipley

The People Powered Press, Saltaire

Amplifying voices using the largest printing press of its kind in the world

‘Tis the season’

by Oli Bentley, printed by PPP volunteers and local residents, Dec 2021

Mural featuring words by Oli Bentley, pasted to the wall of the People Powered Press's Poetry & Print Garden, Shipley