How to Make a Poetry Film

By Helen Dewbery

How to Make a Poetry Film A handbook for poets by Helen Dewbery is a step-by-step guide to creating a poetry film. Each chapter covers different aspects of poetry film and is designed to build skills and confidence. As you progress through the book, youʼll learn:

• Where to find the tools to make films at low cost.

• How to put everything together.

• How to make your films stand out.

By engaging with the activities, you will have planned and made at least one poetry film and gained the skills to make many more.

“How to Make a Poetry Film is that rare thing in the poetry world: a practical guidebook that also inspires. Helen Dewbery has a wealth of knowledge that she wants to share with poets and filmmakers to help them take their work further. From expressing the nuances of rhythm and cadence in visual beats, to how to find footage to build your films, this book will help you to use your own ideas to create quality poetry films. This is the book that has been missing from the canon of ‘how to’ books in the poetry section. I cannot recommend it enough.”

– Wendy Pratt, author, poet and editor.

“How to Make a Poetry Film is the most direct, accessible, and comprehensive guide to Poetry Film available. This art form is still burgeoning within our culture, and Helen Dewbery has been the first many of us writers go to when it comes to learning more about poetry film, and the intricacies that influence the way poetry can be expressed through moving image. This knowledge has now been collected brilliantly, in a book that offers the reader many ways to approach poetry film and answers all the most important questions they may have.”

– Daniel Sluman, poet and disability rights activist.

164 pages

235 × 156 mm

Paperback