After Words This was a memorable event – Uprooted (screening of films about the refugee and migration crisis) was very well received and the poets that Fran selected to recite between film sections seemed to marry seamlessly with the films. One poet said that she felt the films added to or contextualised their readings, which […]
Honoured to be part of REELpoetry, Houston (24–26 Jan) where Dave Bonta of Moving Poems will be featured this year. I will be presenting Uprooted – poetry films relating to migration and the refugee crisis – with Canadian media artist and storyteller Mary McDonald, whose powerful, thought-provoking and arresting film On the Margin of History […]
Sad to see ZEBRA over, and many thanks to Thomas Zandegiacomo and the team for all their hard work. We were given a multitude of richly varied (German and British) poetry films: classic examples of the craft in Tim Webb’s 15th February (poet Peter Reading) and Adele Myers’ and Ra Page’s Racing Time (poet Chris […]
Very excited and honoured to be part of the British section at ZEBRA poetry film festival www.haus-fuer-poesie.org in Berlin this year (5–8 December), with co-director of Liberated Words, Lucy English, and Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron of Poetry Film Live. We are each choosing our own selection of recent UK poetry films to showcase in […]
Very pleased to say Mr Sky with poetry by Lucy English and film by Sarah Tremlett has been selected for Ó bhéal poetry film competition as part of Indie Cork (6 – 13 October) a festival of independent film and music. Fingers crossed on getting to the screening. Congratulations to everyone who was selected and […]
This vitally important essay (from 2011) is long overdue on the website. It gives an in-depth account by pioneer Canadian videopoet (to use his own term) – Tom Konyves – of his rationale behind creating a manifesto for the subject. I first met Tom at the Bury Festival of Text in 2009 when he was […]