Sarah

Sarah Tremlett is a prize-winning poetry film-maker, poet and theorist (www.sarahtremlett.com) and a co-director and online editor of Liberated Words, a poetry film organisation that promotes poetry film (www.liberatedwords.com). A curator and judge at festivals, she has given many talks on the subject and shown her own work worldwide. The Poetics of Poetry Film took over five years to write, and arose out of Sarah's work across painting, film, poetry, performance and digital media. Poetry films combine poetry (often as voiceover or text-on-screen) with the moving image and evocative soundscapes. The book has been described as 'A ground-breaking, encyclopedic work, an industry Bible, and essential reading on the genre' and is suitable for academics, artists, creative writing practitioners, film-makers and everyone interested in cross-media creativity.

A huge piece of work and very ambitious, I am recommending your book to the new MA students, selecting passages for particular notice on research/practice/methodology.

PROFESSOR SUZIE HANNA, Norwich University of the Arts

Sarah Tremlett’s The Poetics of Poetry Film is a unique and extraordinary contribution to this vibrant field of expression. Her landmark volume elegantly articulates the conceptual foundations, language, grammar, and vocabulary of poetry film and its cognate forms; delivers a concise and incisive history of the genre, and introduces students, practitioners and scholars to the field’s contemporary pioneers, methods of making, and varied narrative forms. Laden with rich and provocative illustration and example, The Poetics of Poetry Film functions as Bible, Guide to the Perplexed, and indispensable reference, fluidly integrating interviews with and notes by forty contributors into a coherent and beautifully structured progression. This book—a wonder in its variety, complexity, and ambition—is a superb read. MARC ZEGANS poet, poetry film and immersive theatre artist.

Thank you for your wonderful hard work … very pressing, urgent and useful in academic research and beautiful for people working with poetry film in the last few years. I’m working on a PhD in film studies and your book will be very useful and recommended by me in this area. I’m very glad to be part of it. ALEXANDRE BRAGA, poetry filmmaker.

I loved reading this book. The Poetics of Poetry Film is an amazing resource for scholars and everyone interested in contemporary poetry. DR REBECCA KOSICK, Senior Lecturer in Translation and co-director of the Bristol Poetry Institute in the School of Modern Languages, University of Bristol.

I am thrilled and proud that I am a part of it. I really like the way it's done, the layout, the pictures, the font. It is very, very well designed and it is such a pleasure to leaf through it.I'm looking forward to reading the texts one by one, but I am already convinced that the book is a very important contribution in the field of poetry film. Congratulations! It is so rare that good specialist literature is also well designed and I can imagine how much work is behind it. SUSANNE WEIGNER, poetry filmmaker, architect

A huge accomplishment. I cannot emphasize enough – I am very impressed and applaud you for writing such an encyclopedic book. I know so many people that are still writing and writing and ten years later … still writing. :) BEATA POZNIAK, actress, artist, poetry filmmaker