~ Videopoems ~

Videopoetry, filmpoetry, cinepoetry, poetry-film… the label doesn’t matter. What matters is that text and images enter into dialogue, creating a new, poetic whole.

Waking Up in Phillip Street by Peter Olds

On 2 October, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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http://www.vimeo.com/6764350

Sarah Barraclough says this is her “first attempt at using Adobe After Effects. Poem is by a NZ poet called Peter Olds.” For more on Peter Olds, here’s a bio from the New Zealand Book Council.

Chopped Off Arm and Crumbs by Hal Sirowitz

On 1 October, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Animation
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American poet Hal Sirowitz is, according to an uncited assertion in the Wikipedia, the best-selling translated poet in Norway, thanks mainly to these and other animations by Sigrid Astrup. I think the Norwegian really adds an interesting dimension to the poems.

The Ghosts Listen to Orpheus Sing by Gregory Orr

On 30 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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Gregory Orr reads his poem for “an upcoming [in 2006] enhanced CD release entitled ‘Orpheus and Eurydice'” by Trey Gunn.

you knew this by J.P. Sipilä

On 29 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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http://www.vimeo.com/6749663

A short piece by J.P. Sipilä, a young Finnish poet with an impressive command of filmmaking techniques.

Ariel by Sylvia Plath

On 28 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Videopoems
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Sylvia Plath reads her poem in another video by the enigmatic mishima1970.

Those Who Don’t Feel This Love by Jalal ad-Din Rumi

On 25 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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An inspired choice of film footage to accompany Coleman’s Barks’ reading of his Rumi translation. My favorite of the three Rumi video poems from Four Seasons Productions on YouTube.

A Bird is a Bird by Abbas Saffari

On 24 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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A poem by Abbas Saffari, translated by the multi-talented Niloufar Talebi for her Translation Project DVD, Midnight Approaches.

Welsh Landscape by R. S. Thomas

On 22 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Videopoems
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A poem by the great 20th-century Welsh poet R. S. Thomas. Documentary filmmaker Robin Davies-Rollinson writes on the Vimeo page,

I shot some footage in Ceredigion, West Wales, earlier this week — and all the time, I was hearing in my mind R S Thomas’s poem “Welsh Landscape.”
…so here it is, with the voice of the poet himself.

23rd Street Runs Into Heaven by Kenneth Patchen

On 21 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLpCgttitwQ

Part 1 of a two-part homage to Kenneth Patchen (Part 2 is here) by Dekklun Cuinn (I think. Or at least uploaded by him). The reading is by the poet himself, recorded for Folkways Records. The text of the poem may be read here.

Her Kind by Anne Sexton

On 18 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Videopoems
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Anne Sexton poem with Catalan subtitles from Blocs des Lletres. The recitation is by the poet.

Sonnet Isolate by Anne Carson

On 16 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - Dance, Videopoems
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Poem by Anne Carson, the fifth of six excerpts on YouTube from her lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets called Possessive Used as Drink (Me). See “Recipe” for more information on the series and the production.

“The wish for a garden was simple” by Tyler Flynn Dorholt

On 15 September, 2009 by Dave Bonta with 1 Comments - Author-made videopoems
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“Poem written by Tyler Flynn Dorholt with the first line ‘The wish for a garden was simple,'” says the description on Vimeo, and I’m trying to remember why that name sounds so familiar. Then I remember: we published him at qarrtsiluni last spring. Here’s his blog. Judging from the latest post, it sounds as if he’s getting into video poetry in a fairly big way.