Really delighted that i swallow with visceral ecopoem by Bristol City Poet Caleb Parkin, film by me Sarah Tremlett, and surreal soundscape by The Anchorites, has been selected for inclusion in the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. As a dadaist bike ride, swallowing flies and being part of the world’s ecosystem the screen ‘bodies forth’ the battle […]
It is a joy to read, listen to, and watch poets and be transported by poetry films but when a poetry filmmaker takes up the challenge of working in documentary form on one of the leading poets of our times, this is clearly cause for celebration. The premiere of Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of […]
Launched on Zoom as part of the Scottish Geology Festival, I am really delighted to introduce this exciting, innovative and valuable publication Earth Lines, with a central focus on geopoetry and geopoetics (they are different), or ‘the stratigraphy of poetry in rocks and stones’. As one of the editors (primarily a copy editing /proofreading role) and […]
https://filmpoetry.org/9th-international-video-poetry-festival/ The ninth Athens International Video Poetry Festival is online this year opening on Sunday 6th of June, and then permanently accessible online. This is a major resource for everyone and anyone and I am very pleased that my interview with Dr Meriel Lland on The Poetics of Poetry Film is available in the Lectures and […]
Lyra Festival (14-25 April, Bristol) is back again this year in an online version with a wonderfully rich programme of events (tickets available from the website). LYRA is committed to showcasing diverse forms of poetry, and the poetry film screening has been an integral part of Lyra since it first started in 2019. This year […]
REELpoetry is back this year as a worldwide event online. From 24-28 February Houston-based Reelpoetry at https://www.publicpoetry.net and directed by Fran Sanders will be viewable in the US with CST, and a handy clickable link to find out the time in your part of the world. Each day has a combination of more indepth and […]