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Poetics and Film 1980–2024 A Retrospective by Martin Sercombe


I am honoured to share this really fascinating insight into the development of leading British experimental filmmaker, film poet and poetry filmmaker Martin Sercombe, now living in New Zealand.  As an artist your work changes over the years (alongside artistic influences), and even changes mediums, and this creative process, across time,  is really significant both […]


Frame to Frames Ekphrasis interview with Patricia Killelea for Moving Poems


It was a real pleasure to be interviewed on ekphrasis and adaptation by leading poetry filmmaker Patricia Killelea (Associate Professor at Northern Michigan University) for Moving Poems. I had just been to the We Need to Talk about Art : Ekphrasis Now conference at Leeds (on the tour venues for the book) and had a […]


Joint forces: collaborating in poetry film by Janet Lees 


My Instagram tag is ‘everything is poetry’. Writing this piece, I’ve been thinking of changing it to ‘everything is collaboration’. I love what the poet Matthew Rohrer says about poetry: ‘I’ve come to believe that the writing of all poems is a form of collaboration’. He talks about collage poetry, ekphrasis and ‘collaborations with the […]


Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow – tour: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY, 6 JULY


Really pleased to be presenting Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos Siguen at We Need to Write About Art: Ekphrasis Now, Leeds Trinity University on Saturday, 6th July. For those of you who don’t know, Frame to Frames is a unique bilingual publication with poems on artworks […]


Drumshanbo final call for poetry films


I am really pleased to put in a final call  for poetry films for what promises to be a really memorable event in this beautiful, watery lakeland town (with extraordinary floating boardwalk across Acres lake)  in County Leitrim 22nd to the 25th August.   As they say on the website:  the festival ‘brings  together some […]


JIM ANDREWS: Sea of Po – animisms and a ‘different sort of poetry & magazine’


How to introduce legendary Canadian Jim Andrews – a leading figure in the world of visual poetics / interactive literature / kinetic text and founder of Vispo https://vispo.com.  On eliterature.org the Vancouver-based polymath is described as ‘attempting to create writing that is a synthesis of various arts and media: words, code, sound, images and interactivity’. […]