The art of writing poetry based upon paintings or other artworks is a subject that is close to my heart, alongside the art of combining both in ekphrastic poetry films (see also the bilingual Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow publication and prize). It is also not unusual to create paintings or other forms […]
After a short break from Liberated Words, I find myself swept up in the poetic energy and dynamic narrative (on the page and in real life) of artist, performance poet, experimental filmmaker and senior lecturer at the University of the Arts, London – Lee Campbell. Besides a vast personal output (to be featured soon) Lee […]
Back in April I took part in REELpoetry online which was a full week-long festival, directed by Houston-based Fran Sanders and rich with poetry filmmakers, discussions, and important work. I have been a judge for REELpoetry for quite a few years, though not recently, and the festival has grown, through COVID too, to become a […]
Editor SARAH TREMLETT introduces On the Cutting Edge: 4 Over twenty years ago, in 2004 or 2005, I began thinking of the screen in terms of a philosophical space. I began by looking at language itself and the letter, and how, by making it appear and disappear, something larger in terms of philosophy of language, […]
Excited to be reading from my poetic memoir Horse-Woman (with screening of FLIGHT the poetry film from the prologue to the book) at John Sebastian Lightship, Bristol, for Poetry Film Club on May 20th. It is an ‘otherkin’ poetic memoir with reflections on being a fashion model and writing and painting in a bedsit in […]
I am very pleased and proud to announce that my poetic memoir Horse-Woman will be launched at Frye Festival, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada on Thursday 24th April. It is part of the exciting new Chapbook publication series by Basic Bruegel Editions – the brainchild of leading Canadian poets and video poets Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel […]