The Animated Poets Society

By: Matthew Battles
March 3, 2009

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YouTube channel of the week: poetryanimations, where portraits and photographs of the likes of Baudelaire, Dickinson, and Tennyson are moved to recite their works, often in the poets’ own voices. My attention was captured by Wallace Stevens, impassive as a bullfrog, reading his “No Ideas But In Things”. The animations are the work of Jim Clark, a videographer and sound recordist based in London. Clark mars his work with too-frequent copyright declarations in bold type. But as a selection of online hilobrow curiosa, his short movies are worth a look.

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Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

The Animated Poets Society

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