Advancing Backwards is a poetry collection with poems about a man who, nearing forty, and trying to understand how best to move forward, looks back upon his life and captures key moments as poems. There is a YouTube Channel with more of the video poems from this collection, but here are my choices for this site.

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In addition, you will also find the video poem "Like So' - an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the Visible Verse Festival, Vancouver 2013. Furthermore, I have included the video of the stunning dance to one of my poems called "Consequence." 

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Included here, too, is the video poem "Seismic" - selected for screening at both the Poetry in Motion event at the Penzance Literary Festival, July 2020 and the Newlyn PZ International Film Festival,  June 2021. Plus, it was selected as a FINALIST at the 3rd Hottomela Film Festival in India, 2021.  Also, it was an OFFICIAL NOMINEE at the Miracle Makers International Film Festival 2021, Las Vegas. "Seismic" is from my latest poetry collection called Window Spit.

 

Also from that collection is "The Letting Go" - OFFICIAL SELECTIONS at the Cadence International Video Poetry Festival, 2020, as well as the Miracle Makers International Film Festival - and "Party", which is a recent video poem upload.

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'The Chosen Few' was an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 9th International Video Poetry Festival, Greece, 2021 - and -  an OFFICIAL NOMINEE at the Miracle Makers International Film Festival, Las Vegas, 2021. In addition, it was an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the International Art Film Festival, London, 2021.

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My most recent poetry video upload is "Distance", which was an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the Miracle Makers International Film Festival, Las Vegas 2021, and an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the Tri-State New York Film Festival. I am also very pleased to announce that it was the WINNER of the Best Film Poetry Award at So Limitless and Free International Film Festival in Quebec, Canada, December, 2021.

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