News Round-Up: Pandemic Edition
Festivals extend deadlines or go online, new festivals and other videopoetry-related offerings emerge. Continue Reading
The Book of Hours
The Book of Hours is complete in web form and published in tree-flesh media
I’ve been remiss in mentioning that Lucy English’s unique Book of Hours, an online calendar of poetry films made in collaboration with video artists and filmmakers from around the world, is at last complete — and worth many hours of exploration. Continue Reading
Poetry films on the refugee crisis to be screened at North Cornwall Book Festival
Sarah Tremlett and Lucy English of Liberated Words will screen films from their “Home From Home” project, exploring the effects of war in the Middle East and the refugee crisis, as well as interpretations of home for those arriving as immigrants in a strange country. Between films, Lucy will perform poems from The Book of Hours. Continue Reading
Lucy English shares lessons from The Book of Hours poetry film project
The latest issue of Poetry Film Live includes an extremely interesting new paper by Lucy English, WRITING POETRY FOR POETRY FILMS: an exploration of the use of spoken word poetry in poetry films. Continue Reading
Lucy English on poetry-film collaboration
The British poet and poetry-film scholar Lucy English has a very interesting essay in Sabotage recounting the genesis of her Book of Hours project and how she’s adapted her poetic style to the exigencies of collaborative poetry-film creation. Continue Reading
Lucy English interviewed about filmpoetry on Carpool Poetry
Clive Birnie talks to Lucy English about her filmpoem project The Book of Hours, Liberated Words, and Rebecca Tantony’s one-to-one poetry show All the Journeys I Never Took, which Lucy produced. Continue Reading
Update on The Book of Hours project; more collaborators sought
There are now nineteen films for The Book of Hours and my target is 48 films in total. Four new ones were uploaded this week, made by Janet Lees, Carolyn Richardson, Maciej Piatek and Claire Ewbank. Please have a look at the site and see how it is progressing! Continue Reading