the continuing conversation between art and life
Margaret Tait, an independently visioned film-maker if ever there was one, is being featured (in a joint exhibition with photographer Gunnie Moberg) at Stills Gallery in Edinburgh - ends this Sunday. Recommended. Here is one of her early films: a portrait of her mother, granny or "ga", who comes across as very much a woman of …
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Here is a brief audio-visual intro to the American poet, WilliamsCarlos Williams. Just be aware that the beginning and end of this video have a few flashes of white light and black screen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H0sYMZS-t0
I've just watched "Paterson" - a Jim Jarmusch film about a bus driver who secretly writes poetry and delights in overheard conversation. It's a really gentle, observant film with not much action, but a lot of listening. Here's a really good summary of it by reviewer Mark Kermode, who sums it up as a 'mood …
Getting the story on a practising poet and how he works with publisher and editor - and what a book launch is like.
W H Auden was featured in a documentary on his work and how it speaks to today's anxiety and worries in society
If you've ever wanted advice on "How to be a Poet", there's a book with precisely that title, by key UK poetry publisher Nine Arches press, published in a few days' time (20th December 2017.) It's written by Jo Bell and Jane Commane - who are poets and editors in their own write (right). The …
Happy Birthday, poet Lucille Clifton. We celebrate you; your arrival and what you made, in the time that you had. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM7q_DUk5wU "The mistake teachers sometimes make is that they think art and poetry - they think that's about answers and it's not about that, it's about questions. So you come to poetry not out of …
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So - you like writing poetry - but how can you make it into more like a paying job? Here's a short article by Anthony Anaxagorou. It describes how he gradually moved from a shy 27 year old writer who printed his poems and made Youtube clips of himself reading his poems..... gradual interest led …
A look in the mirror spoken poem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47e_w3cUVhk
In marked contrast to Rupi Kaur, Neil Hilborn has much less soft focus, his Instagram feed is basic typed quotes, interspersed with lots more photos, of his book, his travels, rooms, a dog, and a sense of life on the road.
