Poetry Film
I have collaborated with Belgian film-maker Marc Neys on a number of poetry-videos.
Drift by Marc Neys: http://vimeo.com/54629532
Marc Neys' poetry film Drift, based on Paul Perry's poem 'For Two Nato Soldiers ...' won first prize in the video poetry competition of "La Parola Immaginita" 2013, a part of Treviglio Poesia Festival.
River of Light by Marc Neys: http://vimeo.com/68851109
River of Light appeared in my first book, The Drowning of the Saints, (2003). It appears in Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems, the Dedalus Press, 2014. The poem is also featured on the Leaving Certificate Cycle in Ireland from 2015-2018.
River of Light was selected as part of 17 Days exhibition at Gwen Frostic School of Art ••• Western Michigan University
September 30 – October 26, 2015 - The Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery – Alfred State College
October 2016 - Mahoney Hall – University of Massachusetts Lowell
November 14, 2016 – May 1, 2017 - Atrium Gallery – Western Michigan University
Selected for and screened at Video-art Festival Miden (3-5/6/2014, Kalamata, Greece)
Part of and screened at an exhibition of sound-enhanced poetry and film-poems, in the Cube Gallery (Leicester, UK, 7/4 - 25/4/2014)
Screened during a showcase on videopoetry for FROWN (07/02/2014, Athens, Greece)
Screened at Filmpoem 2013 (Dunbar, Scotland, 02/08/2013)
Drift by Marc Neys: http://vimeo.com/54629532
Marc Neys' poetry film Drift, based on Paul Perry's poem 'For Two Nato Soldiers ...' won first prize in the video poetry competition of "La Parola Immaginita" 2013, a part of Treviglio Poesia Festival.
River of Light by Marc Neys: http://vimeo.com/68851109
River of Light appeared in my first book, The Drowning of the Saints, (2003). It appears in Gunpowder Valentine: New and Selected Poems, the Dedalus Press, 2014. The poem is also featured on the Leaving Certificate Cycle in Ireland from 2015-2018.
River of Light was selected as part of 17 Days exhibition at Gwen Frostic School of Art ••• Western Michigan University
September 30 – October 26, 2015 - The Bret Llewellyn Art Gallery – Alfred State College
October 2016 - Mahoney Hall – University of Massachusetts Lowell
November 14, 2016 – May 1, 2017 - Atrium Gallery – Western Michigan University
Selected for and screened at Video-art Festival Miden (3-5/6/2014, Kalamata, Greece)
Part of and screened at an exhibition of sound-enhanced poetry and film-poems, in the Cube Gallery (Leicester, UK, 7/4 - 25/4/2014)
Screened during a showcase on videopoetry for FROWN (07/02/2014, Athens, Greece)
Screened at Filmpoem 2013 (Dunbar, Scotland, 02/08/2013)