Liberated Words began life in July 2012 as the joint initiative of poet and novelist Lucy English and digital arts

writer Sarah Tremlett in order to bring a dedicated annual poetry film or videopoetry event to the UK.

It began life as a one-day curated screening at Pound Arts, Corsham alongside MIX – Merging Intermedia

Conference 2012 – held at Corsham Court, where we were fortunate to welcome such influential videopoets as

Tom Konyves, Maria Mencia, Mark Amerika and Kate Pullinger. It also has to be said that the Methuen Arms was

our home from home for the entire event and still is today!

Following on from this it was our great good fortune that Colin came to visit us at Corsham and invited us to

present a digital moving poetry day at Bristol Poetry Festival.

What Is Videopoetry?

Videopoetry or digital moving poetry amongst other names is, according to Tom Konyves:

the poetic juxtaposition of images with text and sound. In the measured blending of these three elements

it produces in the viewer the realisation of a poetic experience.

Liberated Words celebrates all forms of moving digital poetry – both those which achieve a poetic experience

from the ‘measured blending’ of images with text and sound, as well as videopoems which are new

interpretations or even mashups of page or ‘static’ poems. As an all-inclusive festival which aims to grow

steadily year by year we encourage all interpretations of moving poetry from all age groups and points of view;

and we particularly welcome contributions from anyone inspired by image, text and sound in Bristol itself.

Liberated Words Poetry Film Festival

3^rd October at Bristol Poetry Festival 2013

call for videopoems

Festival organisers Sarah Tremlett and Lucy English in conjunction with Colin Brown of Poetry Can welcome

videopoems of 3 minutes or less to be screened at Liberated Words poetry film festival, as part of Bristol

Poetry Festival, October 2013.

There are two separate categories for this year’s inaugural festival:

Four by Four

Videopoems of three minutes or less are invited as a response to a printed poem by four poets.

The poets and poems are:

Philip Gross: Heaps

Lucy English: from 'Take Me to the City'

Jo Bell: The Shipwright’s Love Song

Johnny Fluffypunk: Bill Blake’s Birthday Cake for Adrian Mitchell

Download all the poems here

Download an entry form here

Winning entries of each poem will be screened as the highlight of the festival at the Arnolfini, Bristol.

Liberated Words II

We are also inviting videopoetry makers to submit 3 minutes of their most recent work broadly supporting the

theme of ‘liberated words’.

The selected poetry films will be shown at a Liberated Words II screening at the Arnolfini Bristol.

Download Rules and Regulations here

Download an entry form here

Download a release form here

Submission deadline for both competitions: 30^th July 2013