EFP 43: Poetry and Cinema with Dr Sarah Stewart

Host Dr Pasquale Iannone is joined by award-winning poet, author and editor Dr Sarah Stewart to discuss the links between poetry and cinema.

Pasquale and Sarah discuss poems by May Swenson, Sharon Olds, Bill Sherman and Elizabeth Jennings on subjects ranging from James Bond to post-war Polish cinema, Orson Welles to Marilyn Monroe.

The episode also includes recommendations of film-themed poetry by Robin Robertson, Michael Ontdaatje and Margaret Tait as well as an exclusive reading and discussion of Sarah's own film-themed poem 'Opening Scenes of a Never-Made 1980s Thriller'.

Poems discussed:

May Swenson - 'The James Bond Movie' (1978)
Bill Sherman - 'Orson Welles, Are You Listening?' (1966)
Sharon Olds - 'The Death of Marilyn Monroe' (2000)
Elizabeth Jennings - 'Two Deaths' (1961)

Main films discussed:

Touch of Evil (Orson Welles, 1958)
Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Perfect Days (Wim Wenders, 2023)