Taking to the platform to chants of "There's only one Andy Burnham", he read the names of dozens of those who died, alongside readings by Liverpool MPs Maria Eagle and Steve Rotherham.
Performances will happen alongside readings and exhibitions in museums and in the national library.
A research project on the poetry of religious faith and doubt, for example, particularly caught the students' intellectual imagination; their search for spiritual poetry elicited sophisticated readings of Hopkins, Arnold and Christina Rossetti alongside less canonical poets such as Francis Thompson and Augusta Theodosia Drane.
However, the engineers indicated that it would be useful to them to understand any anomalies in piezometers if their readings were plotted alongside the reservoir pool levels.
Or the modern rock tour, as he and author George Washington Cable traveled as the "Twins of Genius," and alongside readings from their books performed songs and stories they took from African-American sources, and performed with such Elvis-like verve that young women "blushed" and "fainted".
He's "very happy" to have the chance to perform his poetry alongside Sarah Maguire at readings in London and Brighton.
Following an acclaimed UK tour last year, the show opens in London this month, alongside talks and readings that amount to a Wertenbaker retrospective.
Reading "My Struggle" alongside the Neapolitan novels, you can't help but incline one way or the other, discovering that you're more at home in Norway than in Naples, or that you're more like Elena (or her friend Lila) than like Karl Ove.
Reading this book alongside Han Bangqing's Sing-Song Girlss of Shanghai" or Kazuo Ishiguro's "When We Were Orphans" is an object lesson in how Communism erased China's local histories (even the history of a great cosmopolis) and imposed a rigid new national identity in their place.
Bath is the latest to decide to charge the maximum rates alongside Reading, Liverpool and Leeds Metropolitan.
