Poetry film harmonises words, images and sound to create a new poetry experience … it’s more than spoken words, visual images and sound being in the same room together, it’s their ability to talk to one another that creates the magic in poetry film.

Chaucer’s poems are lyrical and filled with elegant imagery, but they also carry an emotional intensity that confronts and discomforts the listener; Helen’s film photography is a delight in itself, and her use of still and moving images is varied and consistently thought-provoking; but when the poems are combined with the visuals, the effect is even greater than the sum of its parts.

D.D. Johnston.

 

 

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