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Three “heart” poems by Simon Barraclough

On 11 July, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Animation
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Three poems by Simon Barraclough — “Starfish Heart,” “Pizza Heart” and “Celeriac Heart” — from his new collection, Neptune Blue. The animations are the work of Carolina Melis, and are quite extraordinary, in my opinion — a novel solution to the problem of how to interpret poetry through animation without getting mired in excessive literalism.

Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson

On 24 June, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 5 Comments - Animation
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Update: this video is no longer online.

This seemed like a fitting follow-up to yesterday’s Ruben Dario videopoem. Ilsa Misamore made the animation, with cut-paper sculptures by Helen Musselwhite.

The Green Man by Dick Jones

On 6 June, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Videopoems
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A Moving Poems production by yours truly. The text and reading are by the English poet and blogger Dick Jones. Thanks are also due to the blog carnival The Festival of the Trees, edition #60, which reprinted Dick’s poem, and featured as well a number of videos, helping to inspire this effort.

Chartres Blue by Kate Ruse

On 6 April, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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Kind of a video game feel but interesting nonetheless. Vasileios Matsoukas is the filmmaker. Kate Ruse is an English poet whose “Puritan Black” was featured here last June.

To a Mouse by Robert Burns

On 1 April, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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A gorgeous, grungy animation and great reading (by Bill Patterson) of the classic poem, created for the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway, Scotland. Barnaby Hewlett directed. Produced by Spiral Productions.

Prodigal by Kona Macphee

On 25 March, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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Alastair Cook‘s 11th filmpoem. His description at Vimeo is worth quoting in full:

Prodigal is a film of Kona Macphee‘s poem, which was born from Andrew Philip’s project for the second Hidden Door festival, held in Edinburgh in October 2010: I was asked to record a reading of the poem. As I read it, I felt its power and resolved to make a filmpoem. I commissioned a cello piece from Rebecca Rowe and we performed this live at the Poetry Association of Scotland‘s meeting on 9th March 2011, at the Scottish poetry Library. A new direction for these perhaps, the addition of live performance… but the work is as dark and mercurial as ever.

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

On 17 March, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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Ten minutes of campy goodness: a silent-film-style adaptation of the classic poem directed by Adam Gollner, and starring Liane Balaban, Dave Lawrence, Tamar Amir, Miska Gollner, Jonathan Shatzky and Tracy Martin. You will probably either love it or hate it.

The complete poem, together with a free audiobook, is here.

We’ll Go No More A-Roving, by Lord Byron

On 14 March, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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An amusing interpretation of Lord Byron’s ballad, directed by Kevin Jackson. (See Vimeo for the rest of the credits.) I was expecting some melodramatic ending, but thankfully that didn’t happen, and I ended up admiring this remix of a classic.

Abachan by Alastair Cook

On 10 March, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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I’ve featured a number of Alastair Cook‘s filmpoems for other poets’ work, but this is the first one he’s made for a poem of his own. It’s due to premiere at a Geopoetics conference on March 27th at John Ruskin’s house, Brentwood, in the Lake District.

Today also we bring you the full text of Alastair’s think-piece on the poetry-film genre, “The Filming of Poetry.” Please go read and add your own thoughts. This first appeared in paper form at Anon Seven last summer. Thanks to Alastair for letting me repost it.

Gaia by Stan Skinny

On 28 February, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Stan Skinny wrote and performed the music as well as the poem. Filmed, edited and mixed by Laklop.

Lament by Dylan Thomas

On 25 February, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 4 Comments - Videopoems
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Update: Video has been made private.

Swoon is at it again with a compelling contrast of public and private moods.

Based on the poem ‘Lament’ by Dylan Thomas (read by himself)
The lament for (his) decay together with the lament for growing protests (Prague 68 – Cairo 11) against the positive growth in nature. Everything in life evolves…hopefully for the best.

Street Boy by Gareth Owen

On 24 February, 2011 by Dave Bonta with 3 Comments - Videopoems
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An interesting performance by Paul Townsend in a brief film directed and edited by Lewis Albrow. Gareth Owen is a British playright, novelist, children’s author, actor and director.