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 the book) and had a […]
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 publication with poems on artworks […]
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 Seguen bilingual, ekphrastic poetry anthology, […]
It really feels that REELpoetry has come of age this year, both online – over a week – and in-person on the weekend, you have a full house of varied poetry filmmaking nurtured by now well-established director Fran Sanders and her inclusive programming. All films are accessible to the deaf and hard-of-hearing, with a rich […]
Exhausted and inspired, I have just flown back from vibrant, warm and friendly Mexico City and FOTOGENIA festival 5 – an extraordinary collection of films from across the world, at seven locations, so ably co-ordinated and directed by Chris Patch / Mtro. Christian O. Pacheco-Cámara. The sites were: Centro Cultural Bella Epoch – Cine Lido; […]
I am very proud to announce the launch of Poem Film Editions, an imprint that will celebrate the link between word and image, poetry + film and of course, poetry film. The first publication will be the bilingual (English and Spanish) book of the Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow ekphrastic poetry film screening. […]