Summary
An evening of poetry and cinema. All are welcome. Age 14 plus.
Featuring four Hull based and nationally published poets, reading their own work.
Also a 53 minute artistic film, Moor, a non-narrative story, drawing inspiration from poetry, dreams, ghost stories and the landscape of the North Yorkshire Moors.
Artists:
Brian Connell: widely published in The Hull Connection, Braquemard, iota, Ragged Raven and others. His poems contain black humour and explore themes of the dispossessed and marginalised in society.
Andy Fletcher: his poems have widely featured in UK magazines and his collection The Mile Long Piano was published by Ragged Raven, 2007. His new collection How to be a Bomb is due for release this year. “…both humorous and touching, often at the same time and has moments of great seriousness”
John Robinson: His poetry collection Cook’s Wedding was published in 2001; is a “celebration of life and locality”. Supper at Ocean Villas, Thirty Poems for the Centenary, a collection of poetry exploring World War One, was published in 2014.
Simon Solomon is a practising poet and has published a collection of verse translations and essays. Currently working on an independent film-poem with Sara Larsson on the life and work of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. His themes explore elements of the Gothic.
Filmmaker Edward Hunter, has been writing and producing films for many years, developing his style from early horror homages to an artistic methodology that incorporates elements of poetry, spirituality, dream and the unconscious.