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earth acceleration by Mark Goodwin

On 6 September, 2016 by Dave Bonta with 2 Comments - Videopoems
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Here’s something fun and different: a collaboration between poet Mark Goodwin and filmmaker Martyn Blundell featuring Goodwin and his love of balancing on rails. He elaborates on this in a lyrical blog post for Longbarrow Press, who recently brought out his fourth collection, Steps, which “explores themes of climbing, walking and balancing,” according the post. Among other interesting observations, Goodwin says:

To walk along a handrail by the side of a footpath is to disobey. This is, I feel passionately, what poetry should be. Poetry is just next to the conventional ways (or habits) of being human … but it disobeys, which only goes to show those conventions more clearly, even celebrate them … but certainly challenge them.

Do read the rest. Goodwin has also recorded, mixed and produced a ten-track album of poems from Steps, available as a free download.

Audiopoetry exhibition in Leicester features twelve film-poems

On 6 April, 2014 by Dave Bonta with 0 Comments - festivals and other screening events

Twelve poetry films will be included in an exhibition of audiopoetry beginning Monday at the Cube Gallery in Leicester, England.

Poems, Places & Soundscapes is an international exhibition of digitally produced sound-&-poetry focusing on place and soundscape, installed in Leicester’s Cube Gallery (part of The Phoenix arts complex) from Monday 7 April to Friday 25 April 2014 (see opening times below). Poet Mark Goodwin and Brian Lewis (of Longbarrow Press) bring together and present a range of vivid, immersive sound-enhanced poetry made through various poet, musician and sound-designer collaborations, as well as by individual poet-sound-artists. The exhibition also includes a selection of ‘place-entranced’ film-poems.

An open and informal panel discussion about sound-enhanced poetry and film-poems will take place at 6.30pm on Thursday 10 April 2014 at The Phoenix (4 Midland Street, Leicester, LE1 1TG).

Phoenix
4 Midland Street
Leicester
LE1 1TG
http://phoenix.org.uk

Opening Hours
for the Phoenix’s Cube Gallery and Cafe Bar
Mon to Fri: 9am – 11pm
Sat to Sun: 10am – 11pm

This exhibition is part of Mark Goodwin’s Sound-Enhanced Poetry project, which was awarded an Arts Council England Grants for the arts in 2013.

Visit the Poems, Places & Soundscapes website for more information.

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