PUBLICATIONS

Spoken Word in the UK published by Routledge, is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK - its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different styles and characteristics that make it unique. Drawing together a wide range of authors including scholars,…

LYRA POETRY FESTIVAL 2021: Two Poetry Film Events – Reconnections screening online and The Poetics of Poetry Film interview

Lyra Festival (14-25 April, Bristol) is back again this year in an online version with a wonderfully rich programme of events (tickets available from the website). LYRA is committed to showcasing diverse forms of poetry, and the poetry film screening has been an integral part of Lyra since it first…

REELpoetry 2021 – 24th-28th February

REELpoetry is back this year as a worldwide event online. From 24-28 February Houston-based Reelpoetry at https://www.publicpoetry.net and directed by Fran Sanders will be viewable in the US with CST, and a handy clickable link to find out the time in your part of the world. Each day has a…

Congratulations to Dr Lucy English!

Lucy is now officially Dr Lucy English; a big congratulations to her amidst all the bad news we have been having lately. Here is a copy of her long-awaited thesis 'The Book of Hours; a new poetics: Finding a model for spoken word in poetry films'.  

Peace on Earth

Thinking of everyone at this difficult time. Looking forward to the New Year and new beginnings. Keep safe and sound.

i swallow and LYRICAL VISIONS – New Zealand

Very pleased to say the Dadaist poetry film i swallow with poem by Bristol City Poet Caleb Parkin and surreal music by the American band The Anchorites, will be screened as part of Lyrical Visions festival on the 9th of December.  This will be one of those rare occasions at…

Selfie with Marilyn in ZEBRA, Berlin and FOTOGENIA, Mexico City – representation – who makes the image?

Poet Heidi Seaborn, Dr Meriel Lland and Sarah Tremlett on identity; Hatti Rees' Personas at The Stedelijk Museum, Breda, and Sarah's New Romantic incarnations. Plus an update from Tom Konyves on Selfie and Heidi's wonderful news winning the Pank Book Prize for Poetry 2020 with An Insomniac's Slumber Party with…

Videopoetry / Vidéopoésie interview with Catherine Parayre (2020)

A while ago I mentioned the launch of the must-have publication on videopoetry ­­– Videopoetry / Videopoésie by pioneer Canadian practitioners Daniel H. Dugas and Valerie LeBlanc (Basic Bruegel). Valerie and Daniel have now conducted a really delightful, succinct and revealing interview see https://vimeo.com/447315272 with Catherine Parayre, editor at the…

Solstice Sol Invictus news - screenings across the globe

    Very excited and proud to say that Solstice Sol Invictus (a poetry film centred on light, hope, faith – regeneration and solar time) will be in the welcoming and richly varied online arts festival At the Fringe, Tranas, Sweden, available from the 9th­–18th October online – see https://www.atthefringe.org/film-2020. …

SPEAKING ROCKS – GEOPOETRY 2020 1st OCTOBER

  Really very honoured to be presenting at this genuinely 'rocking' conference organised by the Geological Society, with a strong team of geopoets at the helm and taking part. Whilst pre-COVID-19 the event would have been live, (with all that encompasses in relation to the theme), geological sites have found…

FRIDAY 31st JULY, 7.45 (BST) TIMES IN SOUND, LETTERS OF WAR

  CANADIAN WAR LETTERS Join Canadian Mary McDonald, Program Delivery Lead for Pinnguaq (a not-for-profit organization based in Lindsay, Ontario), for the premiere of her mammoth, geo-located sound project, Times in Sound, Letters of War. Drawing from the Canadian Letters and Images project of Vancouver Island University, Mary has composed and…