Frame to Frames : Your Eyes Follow – tour: LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY, 6 JULY

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…

Drumshanbo final call for poetry films

I am really pleased to put in a final call  for poetry films for what promises to be a really memorable event in this beautiful, watery lakeland town (with extraordinary floating boardwalk across Acres lake)  in County Leitrim 22nd to the 25th August.   As they say on the website:…

JIM ANDREWS: Sea of Po – animisms and a ‘different sort of poetry & magazine’

How to introduce legendary Canadian Jim Andrews – a leading figure in the world of visual poetics / interactive literature / kinetic text and founder of Vispo https://vispo.com.  On eliterature.org the Vancouver-based polymath is described as ‘attempting to create writing that is a synthesis of various arts and media: words,…

Weimar: Lit-collage, Aline Helmcke, Frame to Frames book tour, judging – Poetryfilmtage

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…

Poetry Goes Technical: LYRA, Cancer Alley and AI poetry with Thomas Zadegiacomo del Bel

If you are in Bristol this weekend LYRA poetry festival is closing on the 21st with lots still to come, such as TS Eliot prize-winning poets Joelle Taylor and Alice Oswald (in Oswald's case supported by Caroline Bird and Rachel Long). And for poetry film lovers and those interested in…

World Autism Month and Poetry Film – Christina Jane and Steve Downey

April is World Autism Month / Autism Acceptance Month which began on the 2nd of April as World Autism Awareness Day, and includes Autism Acceptance Week 2–8 April. Though for many it might seem a fairly new idea, this important time of year has roots going back as far as…

Women in Word II Hypatia Trust, Penzance and FINAL CALL for films

I am really thrilled to be back at the second Women in Word Literary Festival based out of Hypatia Trust, Penzance, Conrwall and this year running from 6th to the 8th of June. I will be part of the selection team for the poetry film section including Lally MacBeth and…

REELpoetry, Houston April 1–7 live and online – many voices

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…

The Poetics… &  Projections : The Journal for Movies and Mind; The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality, Visual Studies and the RSA.

I am delighted to say that The Poetics of Poetry Film is gaining a steady presence even three years after its initial publication. I can’t mention all the emails and endorsements of the book I have had, however here are a few  diverse examples. I am proud to say that…

LYRICAL VISION VI – a jewel of a New Zealand summer screening

LYRICAL VISIONS VI (Friday, January 26th) promises to be one of those 'jewel' events that glint tantalizingly across the water:  both creatively excellent with a finely honed curation, but also a really memorable and enjoyable  evening out with a mixture of films and live events. One example is poet and…

HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND NEW YEAR

  Happy Holidays and New Year to all poetry filmmakers, artists, poets etc. out there. I look forward to catching up with you in the New Year. In the meantime here is a card my daughter Georgie painted for me (she says she isn't an artist ...) to send you…

In MEXICO CITY for Winner of FRAME TO FRAMES : YOUR EYES FOLLOW II & publication

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…