A videopoem about a poetry festival? Sure, why not? I’d been thinking about this footage for days until it occurred to me it could make an amusing visual metaphor. I shot it last Saturday at Coate Water Country Park in Swindon, UK during the Big Poetry Weekend held at the adjacent Richard Jefferies Musuem.
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