Current project: Perpetual Speech: Hollis Frampton and Lyric Poetry

I’ve written a book on Hollis Frampton’s film Gloria! and what it tells us about lyric poetry’s place in film. This research was done as part of a PhD at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast finished last spring. I’m doing some more work on it now on Frampton’s relationship with Ezra Pound and its impact on his filmmaking. This photo of Frampton was taken by his partner Marion Faller, who died at this time last year.

Keynote talk at Oslopoesi Film in Norway, January 2015

I gave the keynote talk at Oslopoesi Film, which is a fantastic critical and creative space for poetry and its intersection with film. My talk centred on the problem of voiceover, which I see as an overly used ‘go to’ method for putting poems into cinema. There were presentations by J.P. Sipila (Finland), Marie Silkeberg (Sweden), Steve Roggenbuck (US) among others.