REELpoetry, Houston – a whole new festival format – 31 March - April 12 2025

It’s April and REELpoetry is here once again, but under a new guise, with over a week of online screenings (March 31– April 9), and Saturday, April 12th on home turf, featuring  live events from Houston. As they say in the programme details: ‘In addition to open submissions, the festival…

On the Cutting Edge: 3 Marc Zegans Finds the Story in Peter Wortsman's latest publication

I am thrilled to introduce On the Cutting Edge: 3 this month. It occurs to me that each instalment brings with it a double revelation, both in the work of the featured author, but also in Marc’s illuminating exegesis. In short this is what every poet would really like –…

Lo Galluccio, Not for Amnesia – On The Cutting Edge: 2 by Marc Zegans

Welcome to CUTTING EDGE no. 2, the second edition of Marc Zegan’s thought-provoking, in-depth discussion of the poetic craft. This month we are being treated to poet, memoirist and vocalist Lo Galluccio and her collection Not for Amnesia (Cervena Barva Press, 2023), written in Brooklyn, in the early 90s, after…

Happy New Year and a new column – On The Cutting Edge by Marc Zegans

On The Cutting Edge : Marc Zegans Looks at New Work Launching into 2025 I am thrilled to be able to announce that leading American poet and poetry filmmaker Marc Zegans (based out of Pacific Grove, Northern California) will be writing a regular column – On the Cutting Edge –…

Poetics of Resistance – POSVERSO biennial – videopoetry curation by Alejandro Thornton

The formidable Argentinian-based POSVERSO BIENNIAL presents a rich selection of poets from the digital media / literary / electronic / visual poetry world in a multitude of events and locations. It is perhaps the most historic event of its kind today. By that I mean it centres not only on…

FOTOGENIA 6 – Nine Glorious Days of Wonder, Talent and Imagination in Mexico City

FOTOGENIA INTERNATIONAL FILM POETRY & DIVERGENT NARRATIVES FESTIVAL, based out of Mexico City must now be the largest festival of its kind in the world. I was so fortunate to be able to go last year and this year Festival Director Chris Patch has excelled himself. From November 21st to…

OBHÉAL – HYBRID WINTER WARMER, CORK and live online – a rich feast

OBHÉAL hybrid WINTER WARMER festival, CORK 22-24th November and online Ó Bhéal (Irish for ‘by word of mouth’, or ‘from the mouth’) is here again with its 12th Winter Warmer festival. Ó Bhéal is true to its name, in that poetry film cohabits so snugly with a very full schedule of…

Avant-Garde Maldito Video Poetry Festival – Albacete, Spain –

Maldito (11–17 November) began in 2017 and it has really come of age this year with a comprehensive curation of creative films from around the world and its online presence via FILMIN. What makes it unique is the approach by Javier Garcia, festival director and his team. You can enjoy…

AOTEAROA POETRY FILM FESTIVAL, New Zealand, 20–21 November

Establishing a stand-alone, annual festival in what is really a niche genre is a real achievement. It takes courage, creativity and also, sticking power. I know the experience – the feeling of finishing one and immediately thinking about the next. Aotearoa is now in its second year but already well…

Bristol Literary Film Festival – Frame to Frames, Cancer Alley and an exciting diverse programme

BRISTOL LITERARY FILM FESTIVAL I am really pleased to be part of the newly launched Bristol Literary Film Festival this year. It will also be nice to catch up with Lucy English again, who is presenting the important and timely ecopoetry film Cancer Alley from Outlier Moving Pictures (Pamela Falkenberg…

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…

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…