Helen Dewbery is co-director of Swindon Poetry Festival,UK and co-editor of the online poetry film journal, Poetry Film Live. Her poetry films have been screened internationally in poetry and film festivals including Visible Verse, Canada; Festival Silêncio, Lisbon; Sadho, India. Her most recent project is working with Nine Arches press to create poetry film for their online content. Helen teaches, facilitates and promotes poetry film to poets and filmmakers and uses poetry film in community settings to promote well-being and as a means of enabling people to express complex experiences. Helen is an Associate member of the Royal Photographic Society. Dawn Gorman is a poet and editor, and devises and runs community arts events. She collaborates with film-makers, artists, photographers, musicians and other writers and with sculptor, Liz Watts, holds residencies in art galleries, where she runs poetry workshops and performance events. She has read her work at arts festivals, in pubs, bookshops and on street corners in London, New York, Paris and much smaller places. It appears regularly in journals, is widely anthologised, and has been turned into a symphony.
