2nd Newlyn Film Festival

Spring is not far off and Newlyn Film Festival (5th-7th April) https://newlynfilmfestival.com/2019-festival/ is beckoning once again for its second year. I am very pleased to say that Lucy and myself have been invited to judge the poetry film strand once again – and we are looking out for your inspiring…

Dave Richardson – Unchartered Terrain: The Personal Within

Since beginning as a poetry film festival curator in 2012, and having the dubious task of dividing films neatly into themes, there has been a recurring thought gathering in my mind. What about the poetry films and video poems that are so deeply personal, so profound, that they seem to…

Engaging Empathy Through Creativity Conference

A big thank you from myself and Lucy English to the very thought-provoking Engaging Empathy Through Creativity Conference organisers: Professor Maggie Gee, Dr Kylie Fitzpatrick and Dr Tanvir Bush and everyone else who made the day so worthwhile. It was impossible not to feel enriched and wanting to learn more,…

Athens Video Poetry Festival December 2018

Congratulations to everyone exhibiting;  Lucy has a number of films in the festival which includes my film (and poetry) Solstice Sol Invictus and I also have Night Bus, so I wish I could be there but it isn't possible this year :(( Have a really good time everyone who can…

Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel Dugas New Book on Videopoetry

  Valerie LeBlanc and Daniel H. Dugas have been creating videopoems since the mid and later 1980’s. Their individual and collaborative works are comprised of stand-alone works, i.e. for one-channel screening; as well as multi-channel selections intended for gallery installation. This videopoetry collection will feature still images and texts from…

Autumn Update

THE BOOK OF HOURS AND UPROOTED AT NORTH CORNWALL BOOK FESTIVAL The Book of Hours –the mammoth 48-strong poetry film collaboration between Lucy English and a talented collection of international poetry filmmakers, is now printing as we speak.  Published by Somerset-based performance poetry publishers Burning Eye Books, copies may be…

Mr Sky Rabbity news!

We have heard that Mr Sky – https://vimeo.com/251826023  by Lucy and myself, from The Book of Hours, and about a couple’s relationship as played out through the changing sky, is a finalist in the Best Valentine category for Rabbit Heart Poetry Film Festival! This also means it is in the running…

Newlyn International Film Festival 2018

  Ozone, stone, cutting-edge film culture and celebration – it’s Newlyn Film Festival! Lucy and I have just completed judging for the poetry film section of the inaugural Newlyn Film Festival. Congratulations to everyone who entered, the standard was high and thank you to Diana Taylor and Martin Reiser for…

Light Up Poole Digital Light Art Festival

  LIGHT UP POOLE digital light art festival 15th– 17th February 2018 Judges’ comments and the final ten selected Congratulations to everyone who entered – there were 77 films submitted with Lucy and I selecting ten from twenty shortlisted. We chose completely independently of each other and both had the same top…

New People On Board – WELCOME!

We are really pleased to welcome two new members of the Liberated Words team: Caleb Parkin Caleb is becoming well-known in the poetry world; in the 2016 National Poetry Competition he won second prize. Helmi Stil was commissioned to make a film of the poem by Alastair Cook for the Eyes Like…

My Eyes Like Rays

My Eyes Like Rays National Poetry Competition Filmpoem screening & poetry reading www.filmpoem.com www.poetrysociety.org.uk   Notes from the screening and poetry reading: for all the films please go to: www.vimeo.com/filmpoem  Poet Sam Harvey, Sarah Tremlett and Julia Bird from The Poetry Society Really pleased to see a sell-out poetry reading and poetry…

My Eyes Like Rays Event

  National Poetry Competition Filmpoem screening & poetry reading Friday 13 October 2017, 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, London WC2H 9BX Doors 7pm, event start 7.30pm. Adaptation, interpretation or illustration – how to convert a poetic image to a filmic one? Filmmakers translating the latest National Poetry…