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B. Catling: Near Vorpal
3 months ago 17 0
NEAR VORPAL is a spin-off from Neil Astley's film JABBERLEDBURY (www.vimeo.com/5909374), and presents a reading at 2009 Ledbury Poetry Festival by B. Catling of his poem 'Near Vorpal' which uses the invented language of Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' in a First World War setting. B. Catling also appears […]
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Jabberledbury
3 months ago 154 0
JABBERLEDBURY presents Lewis Carroll's poem 'Jabberwocky' read by 28 poets taking part in the Ledbury Poetry Festival 2009. Filmed at numerous sound checks by publisher-in-residence Neil Astley of Bloodaxe Books over the course of the ten-day festival in July 2009, JABBERLEDBURY has the poem read four […]
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Jen Hadfield
4 months ago 117 0
Jen Hadfield won the 2008 T.S. Eliot Prize with her second collection, NIGH-NO-PLACE. In this short video she reads four poems from the book, beginning with the title-poem 'Nigh-No-Place', followed by 'In the same way', 'Daed-traa', and then 'Paternoster', the Lord’s Prayer uttered by a draught-horse. […]
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Pamela Robertson-Pearce: BORDERLINE
4 months ago 79 0
BORDERLINE is a new film, first shown at Northumbria University's conference "Northernness: Ideas and Images of North in Visual Culture" on 26 June 2009. Pamela Robertson-Pearce writes: "BORDERLINE is a work in process. By this I mean that BORDERLINE is still evolving as I continue using video to respond […]
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Ellen Hinsey
5 months ago 35 0
ELLEN HINSEY reads four poems from UPDATE ON THE DESCENT, a powerful meditation on violence, war and human division. Drawing on personal and family experiences as well as research at the International Criminal Tribunal in the Hague, UPDATE ON THE DESCENT is an exploration of the extremes of the human […]
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Leanne O'Sulllivan
5 months ago 60 0
Leanne O'Sullivan is a young Irish poet from the Beara peninsula in West Cork. In this short film she reads one poem from her debut collection, 'The Cord' from WAITING FOR MY CLOTHES, followed by five poems from her second collection CAILLEACH: THE HAG OF BEARA: 'Sister', 'Lost', 'Rapture', 'The Dancing […]
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Brendan Kennelly: Reservoir Voices
5 months ago 99 0
Brendan Kennelly is one of Ireland’s most distinguished and best loved poets. In this short video he talks about his new collection RESERVOIR VOICES and reads four poems from it, 'Hope', 'Lie', 'Proposal' and 'Peace', plus his classic 'Begin' at the end. This is an excerpt from a film made by Pamela […]
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Fred Voss
5 months ago 78 1
Fred Voss doesn’t just write about factory life, he lives it. For the past 30 years he has worked as a machinist in various factories in California, transmuting his experiences into poetry. The backdrop of much of his work is the Goodstone Aircraft Company, an oily amalgam of all the places where he […]
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Samuel Menashe (from Life is IMMENSE)
6 months ago 74 0
Samuel Menashe’s poetry has a mysterious simplicity, a spiritual intensity and a lingering emotional force. For the past 50 years he has practised his art of ‘compression and crystallisation’ (in Derek Mahon’s phrase) in poems that are brief in form but profound in their engagement with ultimate questions. […]
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Sarah Arvio
6 months ago 98 0
Sarah Arvio is a highly original American poet. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed her reading her poems at a friend's apartment in New York City in September 2008. Composed during a long stay in Rome, the cantos of her latest book SONO (2006) look outward in order to look inward, transforming sights and […]
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Voice Recognition: Jay Bernard
6 months ago 123 0
Jay Bernard is one of 21 poets included in the new Bloodaxe anthology of young poets, VOICE RECOGNITION (ed. James Byrne & Clare Pollard, published in September 2009). Here she reads in the 'Roddy and the Pilots' event at StAnza, Scotland's international poetry festival, in St Andrews, on Friday 20 March […]
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Voice Recognition: Emily Berry
6 months ago 114 0
Emily Berry is one of 21 poets included in the new Bloodaxe anthology of young poets, VOICE RECOGNITION (ed. James Byrne & Clare Pollard, published in September 2009). Here she reads in the 'Roddy and the Pilots' event at StAnza, Scotland's international poetry festival, in St Andrews, on Friday 20 March […]
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