WIRRAL POETRY FESTIVAL: Poetry Film – Getting Started
Looking forward to presenting a ‘Beginner’s Guide to Poetry Film’ workshop on Sunday 27th June with prize-winning poet Sarah Wimbush and young, talented filmmaker Isi Turner. We have been very lucky in having the full house at twenty subscribers and others wanting to take part, so well done to Wirral for making this happen!! Looking forward to the discussions and questions.
9th Athens Video Poetry Festival (online)
https://filmpoetry.org/9th-international-video-poetry-festival/
The ninth Athens International Video Poetry Festival is online this year opening on Sunday 6th of June, and then permanently accessible online. This is a major resource for everyone and anyone and I am very pleased that my interview with Dr Meriel Lland on The Poetics of Poetry Film is available in the Lectures and Performance Zone. Very honoured that the book will contribute as a resource to this brave and ambitious project across genres, to give open access education on the arts online. Exciting future ahead!
RECONNECTIONS at LYRA Poetry Festival, Bristol, 17 April 2021
Lucy English and I curated poetry films for LYRA under the theme of Reconnections, in relation to how we had been affected by Lockdown and the themes that had arisen. Lucy’s themes were related to Bristol and South West poets and filmmakers concerning loss, anxiety, belonging, and how we have survived through these times. I chose the theme of family history poetry film, as I had seen a couple that had arisen at festivals during the year, but also as I have been working on a family history project TREE (which includes prose, poetry and poetry film) for the last 25 years.
Publications
The Poetics of Poetry Film
The Poetics of Poetry Film https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-poetics-of-poetry-film published by Intellect Books (May 2021), is described by the publishers as: ‘The first book of its kind, it classifies the different types of poetry film, shedding light on the fast-growing genre and citing works from poetry filmmakers worldwide. A ground-breaking industry bible for anyone interested in poetry, digital media, filmmaking, art and creative writing as well as poetry film-makers.’ [412 pages, 60 col., 20 b/w illus].
Sarah Tremlett interviewed by Dr Meriel Lland for REELpoetry 2021
Poetry film-maker, poet and theorist Sarah Tremlett is interviewed by author and poetry film-maker Dr Meriel Lland, on her leading reference work The Poetics of Poetry Film – Film Poetry, Videopoetry, Lyric Voice, Reflection (April, 2021), In this revealing interview Lland brings to light some of the key questions raised; both in creating such a large work, but also how Tremlett’s thinking develops around subjects such as time, lyric voice, subjectivity, the remediation of the page poem, and audio-visual philosophical practice. The book equally interweaves historical and contemporary facts with numerous artists’ voices, discussing their personal approaches to poetry film, film poetry and videopoetry today. Selected films are also screened.
Author Comments
I am so pleased to finally be able to share this book with everyone interested in poetry film. It has taken a long time to arrive, but this is because I spent a long time researching the different genres and art forms that feed into poetry film, as well as following the way that poetry film has developed in the last five years. I feel so very lucky to have so many valuable contributors, not least the two leading authors – Thomas Zandegiacomo del Bel from ZEBRA who has given an in-depth account of international poetry filmmakers who have exhibited in ZEBRA, and also a fascinating and revealing set of interviews with Spanish video poets by leading poetry filmmaker Charles Olsen. I have thanked everyone in the book but special mention must go to the contemporary pioneers of the field, such as Marc Neys, Alastair Cook and Dave Bonta; also leading videopoet Tom Konyves and I must especially thank Enzo Minarelli who, with his own manifesto of PolyPoetry, originated some years ago, has given an elucidating view of orality and the word in video poetry today.
NEWS
Online interview with Sarah Tremlett by Dr Rebecca Kosick from Bristol Poetry Institute on April 21st 6–7 p.m. as part of LYRA Poetry Festival, Bristol. This will be a really interesting event so, as LYRA is online this year please come along. Tickets are available from www.lyrafest.com and the event is promoted in the ‘other events’ section of the catalogue; or from https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-conversation-with-sarah-tremlett-the-poetics-of-poetry-film-tickets-146316788453
I will be sharing aspects of the book through the forthcoming months so keep a look out for upcoming events and if online, please do join in the conversation!
Enjoy the book 🙂
Sarah
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, critics, and practitioners, each chapter gives a new perspective on performance poetics. The book’s six sections cover the essential elements of understanding the form and discuss how this key aspect of contemporary performance can be analysed stylistically, how its development fits into the context of performance in the UK, the ways in which its performers reach and engage with their audiences, and its place in the education system. Each chapter is a case study of one key aspect, example, or context of spoken word performance, combining to make the most wide-ranging account of this form of performance currently available.
This is a crucial and ground-breaking companion for those studying or teaching spoken word performance, as well as scholars and researchers across the fields of theatre and performance studies, literary studies, and cultural studies.
This newly published book is being featured at LYRA Poetry Festival (online) this month. Please go to www.lyrafest.com for more details and to join in the discussion!
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 started in 2019. This year the festival is thinking positive in relation to current world COVID-related events, with the theme of ‘Reconnection’ and Liberated Words are proud to present an online screening RECONNECTIONS 17 April 12 a.m.–1.20 p.m. Poetry films will be shown that have been curated by Sarah Tremlett and Lucy English on the theme of reconnection to landscape, the body, our history, family and heritage during and before the Pandemic. Lucy and Sarah will discuss their curations and there will be an online Q and A open to everyone afterwards. Artists featured include: Kat Lyons, Edalia Day, Rebecca Tantony, Alice Humphreys, Liv Torc, Yvonne Reddick, Helmie Stil, Helen Johnson, Sarah Tremlett, Sarah Wimbush, Isobel Turner, Edson Burton, Michael Jenkins, Pierluigi Muscolino and Francesco Garbo. Tickets available through the festival brochure at www.lyrafest.com.
credit: Lievito Madre, directed by Francesco Garbo and Pierluigi Muscolino, 2020.
The Poetics of Poetry Film
There is a further poetry film event in the festival. On WEDNESDAY 21ST APRIL from 18.00–19.00 Rebecca Kosick from the Bristol Poetry Institute will be in conversation with Sarah Tremlett about Sarah’s forthcoming book The Poetics of Poetry Film: Film Poetry, Videopoetry, Lyric Voice, Reflection. Commissioned by Intellect Books, The Poetics of Poetry Film is the first book of its kind. With encyclopaedic content, it explores the history, different types of poetry film, and sheds light on the fast-growing genre.
Bristol Poetry Institute, University of Bristol presents
In Conversation with Sarah Tremlett: The Poetics of Poetry Film
Date: Wednesday 21 April 2021
Price: Free
Time: 6:00 – 7:00pm
The Bristol Poetry Institute and Indisciplinary Poetics Research Cluster will host this conversation with Sarah Tremlett (co-director of Liberated Words) and Rebecca Kosick (co-director of the Bristol Poetry Institute). The duo will discuss Tremlett’s forthcoming book, The Poetics of Poetry Film: Film Poetry, Videopoetry, Lyric Voice, Reflection. This event is free and open to all. For more information and to reserve your ticket, visit our Eventbrite page.
Tickets and registering are also available through www.lyrafest.com in the other events section.
‘A ground-breaking, encyclopedic work,comprising nearly 400 pages, with multiple contributors … it explores the history and different types of poetry film, a must for students, researchers, poets, filmmakers, across the fields of media, filmmaking, literary and cultural studies, art and philosophy and sheds light on the fast-growing genre…’
Enjoy all the events!!!
