From You Are Not Alone – poems on mental health and wellbeing for teens / young adults
BOOK TRAILER
How have you been
feeling lately?
AVOIDANCE IS A COMMON BEHAVIOUR WHEN ANXIETY STRIKES
LOUISA BAILEY
DOWN
“They call them moods, but suppose they’re tsunamis…”
WHAT I WANTED
“To sit, just you and me…”
CHLOE
From Saturdays at the Imaginarium – for children 7+
BOOK TRAILER
Dip a toe – or more – into
the Imaginarium
OPEN WIDE
How far can you stretch your imagination – as far as the weirdness of ordinary reality?
M-M-MURRAY’S M-M-MOUNTAINS
How can we overcome our fears and scale new heights?
NO SUCH THING
There’s no such thing as moonlight… or is there?
DARK, MY FRIEND
Who’s afraid of the dark? Not me!
QUESTIONS ON AN EMPTY STOMACH
Sometimes hunger
makes you wonder
WHEN I WAS CROSS-EYED
Do see things as they are, or
do we see them as we are?
Also for children & young people
THE WILD THING
Do you have parts of yourself you can’t seem to get a handle on?
FATHER’S DAY
Sometimes the people we rely on can disappoint us
Poetry films for adults
Most of these poetry films were made as part of the Arts Council England-funded Poetry Film Collective, run by Helen Dewbery and Chaucer Cameron (poetryfilmlive.com). Some of them have been screened at a series of Adventures in Poetry Film events in the south-west of England; at the 7th International Video Poetry festival in Athens; the Renaissance Festival in Nyora, Australia; the Bristol Poetry Festival and DIY Cinema at Latch, Bristol; the Newlyn International Short Film Festival; the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin and the REELpoetry Festival in Houston, Texas.
ON THE ILLS OF SMOKING
A tribute to one of my favourite writers, the Russian absurdist poet and dramatist Dannil Kharms.
OUTSIDE
Most of us feel like an outsider at some point or another. Is that always a bad thing?
WELCOME TO THE CRUSH ZONE
A found film poem made from words and street art found in my current home town of Frome in Somerset (UK).
PEOPLE HIDE THEIR LOVE
My first stab at making a film using a poem written by someone else (in this case a Chinese emperor).
Shauna Darling Robertson 