A live-reading-with-video – videopoem hybrid, part of an interesting (and sadly under-watched) series on YouTube by Homestead MediaJive TV called “Poets of the Unreeled,” featuring poets from the Miami area. Leah Silvieus is an MFA candidate at the University of Miami.
Swoon‘s very abstract take on the Frost poem, with a reading by Nic Sebastian from Pizzicati of Hosanna.
As you might imagine, there are more than a few videos for this poem on the internet, most of them depressingly void of originality. So often, it seems, this is the fate of the most popular poems — to be badly read. Apparently it takes a filmmaker for whom English is a second language to hear the poem with a more open mind. Of course, Nic Sebastian’s reading may have had something to do with that, too.
Alastair Cook’s 18th filmpoem incorporates a text by Scottish poet Jane McKie which “won the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition in 2011 and was praised by the judges as ‘spare, musical and wonderfully imagined,’” Alastair tells us. Luca Nasciuti was the composer.
Animation by the London graphic design firm Why Not Associates: “Our Smile for London poem, broadcast on London Underground platforms over the coming weeks.”
A poem from the new collection I Was There for Your Somniloquy, winner of the 2010 Omnidawn Book Prize, read by the author, Kelli Anne Noftle. Film by Erin Lee Smith.
