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    • Future Conversations – dates for the diary!
    • Rosie Garland, Maria Jastrzębska and Jane Glennie – Collaboration
    • Suzie Hanna, Diek Grobler and Jane Glennie in Conversation about Poetry, Animation and Text on Screen
    • Be Manzini, Adam Steiner, Kirsten Luckins and Laura Degnan – Community Arts and Activism
  • Selected Poetry Films
  • About
  • Making Poetry Films
  • Essays
    • Ian Gibbins explains the use of Artifical Intelligence in The Life We Live is Not Life Itself
    • WRITING POETRY FOR POETRY FILMS: an exploration of the use of spoken word poetry in poetry films
    • In conversation with Dave Bonta, Chaucer Cameron & Helen Dewbery
    • Filmpoetry and Phenomenology by Susannah Ramsay
    • Film Poetry: A Historical Analysis by Fil Ieropoulos
    • Exploring Contemplative Effects in Text-based Video Poems by Sarah Tremlett
    • New Media and Narrative: Videopoetry and its Combination of Challenge to and Co-existence with Lyrical Tradition
    • Andra Simons
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The Smuggler

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The Smuggler

Poem written and read by Kathryn Bevis
Film created by Laurent Metrich
Illustrations by Margaret Sturton
Kathryn’s book ‘Flamingo’ is published by Seren Books

Kathryn Bevis is a poet and poetry teacher, founder of The Writing School Online, and was Hampshire Poet 2020-21.

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