Remastering Old Poem Videos

I'm sorry it's been very quiet here the last month or two, but once again I've managed to become distracted. This time the cause is related to my YouTube channel, and centers on video editions of some of my older poems.

When I first started uploading video versions of my poems to YouTube, I would read the poem and add audio of my reading to a video to create an audio/visual version of what was on the page. However, after a couple of tries at this I decided to opt for the silent format, whereby I would reproduce the text on the screen with the same pictures and music by no reading from me. Now looking back on those old videos, I've decided that this style doesn't really work for poetry, so I'm going through the list and remastering those old videos. Only my silent animal poems won't be remastered.

So far I have remastered versions of "Night of the Dhole", "Rudraprayag", "Kalua", "Ghosts of Sariska", "The Tiger and Me" and "Red Duke" up and running. There are many more still waiting to be finished, but I will have those up and running in due course. In the meantime, there's still a lot to look forward to over the next few weeks, including my analysis of Harry Baker's "Paper People", and an update on my long-gestating Mametz Wood project. All this and more will be on the way soon - he says.

'Ghosts of Sariska' and Poetry Updates

Hi everyone. Just a quick post to let you know that my new poem 'Ghosts of Sariska' has just been uploaded. I will only post the text of the poem on this blog if there is a big enough demand for it. It deals with the extinction of tigers from Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan in 2005. It can be viewed here at this link: (https://youtu.be/V6fhzutVnSI)

In other news, there will be another Silent Animal Poetry episode coming out very soon, and my First World War announcement is now scheduled for this Friday. Also, I'm considering attempting National Poetry Writing Month which is coming up in the next week or two. I'm in two minds on the subject at the moment, but I will make a decision in the next few days.

Hope you're all having a great weekend.