Last night (9th October) singer-songwriter PJ Harvey staged a multimedia performance at London’s Royal Festival Hall with Seamus Murphey, to celebrate the release of a book of poems the two have collaborated on called The Hollow of The Hand.  The pair had previously collaborated with for the Let England Shake series of short films.

The show also happened to be held on her 46th birthday.

At the show Harvey, accompanied by photographs and films, performed  a selection of poems from her new book along with a collection of ten unreleased songs, Pitchfork reports. The songs are likely from her forthcoming ninth studio album, which she recorded in public during a month long art exhibition at London’s Somerset House earlier this year.

You can watch snippets of the performance here and here.

Harvey was reported to have played the following songs: ‘Chain of Keys’, ‘The Wheel’, ‘The Orange Monkey’, ‘Dollar Dollar’, ‘The Community of Hope’, ‘Homo Sappy Blues’, ‘Medicinals’, ‘Near the Memorials to Vietnam and Lincoln’, ‘River Anacostia’ and ‘The Ministry of Social Affairs’.

Earlier this year she also sold lyric sheets for songs from her new album, including “Sight Seeing South of the River”, “Medicinals”, “The Children”, “The Ministry of Social Affairs”, “The Revolving Wheel”, “Imagine This”, “River Anacostia”, and “UNHCR”.