Filmpoem 7 / -ed

-ed is Alastair Cook’s film of a poem by Mairi Campbell-Jack, from her collection This is a Poem.

Cook says: ‘The poem is dark and yet meditative, lifting to a powerful crescendo and as a result I felt that I needed to introduce a figurative element. So I ruminated…”

-ed was premiered at the Hidden Door 2 in October 2010 and shown at StAnza, the Scottish Poetry Festival, from 16-20th March 2011.