As our lived realities are becoming increasingly multicultural, multi-platform and multi-vocal, poetic heteroglossia offers a means for realising the polyphonic forces between self and others. Continue Reading
Short collaborations can be either a godsend or a total bust. Here’s a good example of the former. Continue Reading
Short. Sharp. Quirky. Strange. Lovely. That’s how the videopoetry of Janet Lees (with Terry Rooney or on her own) comes across. Continue Reading
For her Third Form column at Connotation Press this month, Erica Goss interviewed Cecelia and Justine Post, the artist and poet behind the videopoem/book trailer Beast (which I also shared at Moving Poems a few weeks back). Poet Justine Post… Continue Reading
http://vimeo.com/40802011 I am looking for a writer who is willing to let these three films inspire him/her to write three poems for them… Look and listen…absorb…look and listen some more…and write… I’m looking for three new poems (please use the… Continue Reading
Check out this terrific interview with Belgian filmmaker Swoon and American poet David Tomaloff about their recent collaboration on a triptych of videopoems. I loved learning about their collaborative process and how they thought of each other’s work, and as… Continue Reading
Whale Sound, Cello Dreams and Swoon are looking for poems with which to create a videopoem triptych. Do you have a group of three poems you’d like to have published as videopoems? They could be three of your own poems,… Continue Reading
Published in Anon Seven, July 2010. Anon is the anonymous submissions magazine, edited by Colin Fraser and Peggy Hughes. The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring… Continue Reading
Scottish poet Morgan Downie shared some of his thoughts about videopoetry and his collaboration with Alastair Cook (see their two videos) in “time vampires,” a blog post from April 28 which I only just discovered. He includes some kind words… Continue Reading