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National Poetry Day 2015: PoetryFilm lecture

Happy National Poetry Day 2015!

To mark the occasion of National Poetry Day today (8 October 2015), I will be presenting a PoetryFilm lecture and screening at Millfield in Somerset.

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A Poem for National Poetry Day: “Autotomy” by Wisława Szymborska

Autotomia / Autotomy is taken from Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems. Below are both the Polish and English versions of the poem.

 

Autotomy

Autotomy English

Happy National Poetry Day!

Poemdrums (Liliane Lijn 2009-2011) are related to Lijn’s early work with text, Poem Machines (1962). Like the Poem Machines, they spin, disengaging words from the composed text.Poem-Drum

 

Postcard for the PoetryFilm event about Identity at the Artworkers’ Guild in October 2006

Postcard for the PoetryFilm event at the Artworkers' Guild in October 2006

The event was part of National Poetry Day 2006 and the theme of the event was Identity.

The full programme details are available here.

Programme: PoetryFilm event about Identity at the Artworkers’ Guild in October 6, 2006

Below are details of the PoetryFilm event about Identity at the Artworkers’ Guild in Bloomsbury on October 6, 2006.

A rare experimental screening / performance:

4 artists explore Identity: Gad Hollander, Michael Horovitz, Mahmood Jamal, Malgorzata Kitowski

The event was part of National Poetry Week 2006.

The full programme description from the event is below.

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