Sheaf Poetry Festival - ThePoetryBusiness

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Wild Whispers started with one poem and led to 12 versions, 12 languages and 12 films.

This film, made by Chaucer Cameron and Helen Dewbery documents a project which explores the concept of adaptation and collaboration through poetry film, by sending a poetry film across the world, which was then re-created into a new poetry film and passed on.

The films, created in different languages with English subtitles, were all ‘whispered’ from the previous one. This event will show all the poetry films that have been produced.

The poem travelled from the U.K. to India, Australia, Taiwan, France, South Africa, Belgium, Sweden and the U.S.A., creating poetry films in English, Malaylam, Chinese, French, Affrikaans, Dutch, American Sign Language, Navajo, Spanish, and Welsh.