by Kate Birch | Oct 1, 2026 | Filmpoems
Magnificence For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer What jewelled gifts are these, spliced and stacked on platters of smeared glass? A universe of micro. You breathed life to mitre continents, raised spikebergs of vitamin C. Sulphur produced Marvel-ready planets...
by Kate Birch | Aug 24, 2026 | Filmpoems
The cat is a pony. The cat is a pony, Her nape is a mane. The cat she is tiny but belies her size. She gallops, turning floors and stairs to thunderous drums. This cat is a pony. She shreds the top of carpet treads to make grass. A roped up patch of scrub on a...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Jun 30, 2026 | Filmpoems
Human Ecologies It had been such a long time… I was surprised by how gently my mother made my hair, asking if she should split the rows, my locs beginning to intertwine. She gently, as if using a miniature rake of a Japanese...
by Kate Birch | May 31, 2026 | Filmpoems
The Two Unseens The Two Unseens is a short experimental archival poetry film utilising footage of the first ever film recording of an astronomical event, a solar eclipse captured by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900. The original poem itself is an existential...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | May 5, 2026 | Filmpoems
Outside A Parisian Café Panya Banjoko is a UK based writer and multi-award-winning poet. Her poetry features in numerous anthologies, and exhibitions. Her debut collection, Some Things, (2018) and follow-up work (Re)Framing the...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | Mar 30, 2026 | Filmpoems
The Music That Lives In Me In the aftermath When the dust is settled and silence restored I can still hear your melody and recite each conversation word for word What’s the use in a peace treaty, a zip-lipped truce? I’d rather burn...
