The Poetry + Video programme - curated by Marie Craven - has its UK premiere at The Word in South Shields. Rather than a single screening, the work has been installed as a continuous screening in an exhibition space in the ground floor of the beautiful The Word building. It will be showing whenever the building is open until 17th March. 

The shortlist of 31 films featured below were screened on 13th October in Cork as part of IndieCork. The 2019 judges, poet Stanley Notte and poet-filmmaker Colm Scully, selected one winner to receive the IndieCork award for best poetry-film. Congratulations to winner Fiona Aryan from Ireland for her piece: Virginia Gave Me Roses.

http://www.obheal.ie/blog/poetry-film-shortlist-2019/

Thank you to all the organiser and judges for the event and for screening 'letter - to anyone who is listening' as part of the shortlist of 31 films from 198 submissions. 

The MIX conference, organised by Bath Spa University "has established itself as an innovative forum for the discussion and exploration of writing and technology, attracting an international cohort of contributors from the UK, Australia, and Europe as well as North and South America."

The conference has 4 themes - one of which is Poetry Film - and the organisers are inviting proposals (deadline 4th Feb)

Not one but two films in the official selection for the Poetry Film competition at Indie Cork - Coyote Wedding by Brittani Sonnenberg produced for the Visible Poetry Project, and Being & Being Empty are both going to be shown in Cork on Sunday 14 October, one at 3pm and one at 5pm.

​And, even better, I am looking forward to going to the festival.