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World Poetry Day 2021 – inVERSE Poetry Reimagined

Today on the blog we are celebrating World Poetry Day 2021 by sharing with you some short films from inVERSE poetry reimagined for the 21st century. inVERSE is a collection of five of the world’s oldest surviving poems which have been re-imagined for the 21st century through the medium of film, by the award-winning filmmaker Jack Jewers and released for World Poetry Day 2021. With historical poems ranging from the 1st Century Italy to 1500 BCE Mesopotamia, these five short films explore time and the human condition using the language of the ancients and the modern filmmaking techniques of the 21st century. Each poem chosen for the collection feels like it could have been written yesterday. The five poems chosen...

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