In an earlier blog for the Children’s Poetry Summit I wrote about Making Poetry Films which sparked quite a bit of interest so I thought I’d look at poetry film-making again, this time from a slightly different angle.
My poetry collection You Are Not Alone (Troika, 2023), on teen and young adult mental health and wellbeing, has been selected for The Empathy Lab’s Read for Empathy Collection 2024 and so I’ve been working on some poetry films with empathy in mind.
Interestingly, I’ve discovered along the way that the very process of making poetry films seems to draw on several of the key skills of empathy! You can read more about how and why that might be the case, and watch a couple of my new films, over at https://childrenspoetrysummit.com/2024/04/11/shauna-darling-robertson-poetry-films-and-empathy.
Shauna Darling Robertson 