Filmpoem Collection by Alastair Cook

"Filmpoem is a project by artist Alastair Cook, dedicated to the filming of poetry. The combination of film and poetry is an attractive one. For the poet, perhaps a hope that the filmmaker will bring something to the poem: a new audience, a visual attraction, the laying of way markers; for the filmmaker, a fixed parameter to respond to, the power of a text sparking the imagination with visual connections and metaphor." Cook's collection includes poetry by Andrew Phillip, Mairi Sharratt, Juliet Wilson, Gérard Rudolf, Jane McKie, Clair Askew, and Morgan Downie, and was inspiried by This Collection, a collaborative arts project based in Edinburgh, Scotland.