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Festivals

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 […]


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 combination of more indepth and […]


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 the moment – a LIVE […]


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.  They say ‘The whole selection has […]


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 their online visual voice through […]


Solstice Sol Invictus selected for Versopolis, Festival of Hope and At the Fringe festival, Sweden, 27 June-4 July


Very pleased to hear that Solstice Sol Invictus – with first four verses and direction by myself, and final 4 verses by Lucy English (and additional voice by Helmi Stil), has been selected for At the Fringe, a very interesting festival in Tranås, Sweden. This poetry film (a pair to Summer Solstice), has been popular […]