Themes: Poetry

Come to the Edge

Come to the Edge uses a recording of the poet Christopher Logue reciting a poem originally written in 1968. The poem is combined with video

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O Come All Ye Faithfull

“O come all ye faithful employs television footage of the poet Christopher Logue reading the verse from which Sutcliffe’s film takes its name. Logue sits

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Garden Pieces

A triptych of contrasting moods. Margaret Tait’s last film is a vibrant live-action and hand-drawn garden portrait.”Garden Pieces is a set of three pieces:Round the

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For You

Intertitles and images of a suburban garden as a record of a relationship.‘In its address Peter Todd’s For You is closer to Margaret Tait’s film

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The Waste Land

A personal interpretation of the poetry and letters of T S Eliot.  The Waste Land explores the ambiguities of language and space in a scenario built

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Mile End Purgatorio

This work represents a collaboration between filmmaker and poet responding to tensions between film and the spoken word. The scene is a parade of shops

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Aerial

Touches on elemental images. Air, water (and snow), earth, fire (and smoke), all come into it. For sound theres a drawn out musical sound, single

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Hugh McDiarmid: A Portrait

‘…It was an original kind of tribute….’ – George Mackay Brown in The Orcadian. ‘….shows (her) idea of MacDairmid’s work… amid all the scenes and

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