Join us for a conversation with Sarah Tremlett and Rebecca Kosick about Sarah's forthcoming book, The Poetics of Poetry Film: Film Poetry, Videopoetry, Lyric Voice, Reflection. Commissioned by Intellect Books and The University of Chicago Press, The Poetics of Poetry Film is the first book of its kind. With encyclopedic content, it establishes historical context, classifies the different types of poetry film, and sheds light on the fast-growing genre. Whilst Sarah Tremlett’s thinking develops around subjects such as time, lyric voice, subjectivity, the remediation of the page poem, and audio-visual philosophical practice, the book is multi-voiced, including first-hand accounts from numerous poetry filmmakers worldwide. A ground-breaking industry bible for students, academics, poetry film-makers and anyone interested in poetry, digital media, filmmaking, art and creative writing.

Sarah Tremlett (Poem Film) MPhil, FRSA, SWIP is a poetry film-maker, videopoet, poet and theorist, particularly enquiring into connective aesthetics and the philosophy of poetry film. She is co-director of Liberated Words Poetry Film events, editor of Liberated Words online, a judge at international festivals, and author of leading publication The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books and The University of Chicago Press, May 2021). She has given presentations on her own poetry films worldwide. Recent commissions include: Selfie with Marilyn – by prize-winning American poet Heidi Seaborn, from the Visible Poetry Project; and from Brighton University for – Bird Poem – a family history poetry film by poet Dr Helen Johnson. She is currently working on a personal long-term poetry and poetry film family history collection entitled Tree, centred on the geopoetics of place and belonging, and showcasing other artists on the subject. Other curations include the touring screening Uprooted (with films on the refugee crisis) as part of REELpoetry festival, Houston 2020; and Poetry Films for the Environment for LYRA Poetry Festival 2020.

Rebecca Kosick is a Senior Lecturer in Translation at the University of Bristol, UK, where she also co-directs the Bristol Poetry Institute and runs the Indisciplinary Poetics Research Cluster. Rebecca is the author of Labor Day (Golias Books 2020) and Material Poetics in Hemispheric America: Words and Objects, 1950-2010 (Edinburgh University Press 2020). Her poems and translations of poetry have appeared in venues including the Iowa Review, Fence, The Recluse, and ecopoesia.com. In addition, she has published numerous scholarly articles and essays addressing 20th century and contemporary poetry in the Americas. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.

This event will take place on Zoom. Free and open to all.