Avant-Garde Maldito Video Poetry Festival – Frame to Frames tour and Sarah Tremlett retrospective

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…

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,…

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…

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:…

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,…

Weimar: Lit-collage, Aline Helmcke, Frame to Frames book tour, judging – Poetryfilmtage

I am very excited and honoured to be part of Weimar Poetry Film Award / Poetryfilmtage – (Friday 31st May and Saturday 1st June) this year. I will be judging and also presenting the newly published Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow / Cuadro a Cuadros : Tus Ojos…

Poetry Goes Technical: LYRA, Cancer Alley and AI poetry with Thomas Zadegiacomo del Bel

If you are in Bristol this weekend LYRA poetry festival is closing on the 21st with lots still to come, such as TS Eliot prize-winning poets Joelle Taylor and Alice Oswald (in Oswald's case supported by Caroline Bird and Rachel Long). And for poetry film lovers and those interested in…

World Autism Month and Poetry Film – Christina Jane and Steve Downey

April is World Autism Month / Autism Acceptance Month which began on the 2nd of April as World Autism Awareness Day, and includes Autism Acceptance Week 2–8 April. Though for many it might seem a fairly new idea, this important time of year has roots going back as far as…