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Muchas gracias to Helios Sun in Mexico City for showing Nocturne this year - have a great festival!! 🤩👏👏👏👏👏😍😍😍

Deadeye – a video poet and scientist’s view – Ian Gibbins on the climate change disaster to marine life in Southern Australia. Please watch and read. liberatedwords.com

One Thousand Voices: landscape, memory and immersive storytelling with Wordcore Wayfinders by Martin Sercombe on Liberated Words. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Versi di Luce - So honoured to be in this very special festival in Sicily with Nocturne for a Lighterman – neo-symbolist poem and soundscape by Marc Neys!! Grazie Mille!

Ekphrastic family history poetry film Nocturne for a Lighterman with Marc Neys soundscape is in FOTOGENIA, Mexico City this year, wonderful news! thank you Chris Patch & team on Friday 28 in the Echoes of the Vanguard section, & chat at 2 mec cit time 🥰🫶🏻@fotogenia_fest

So very happy that Nocturne for a Lighterman with neo-symbolist poem and sublime soundscape by Marc Neys is part of OBheal Cork (nov 2). Thank you so much Paul and Colm. Great event, great city, try and make it! Also workshop with Colm on Thursday via Zoom.

Thrilled to read from Horse-Woman poetic memoir with paintings, about fashion modelling and being an artist, living in a bohemian bedsit in London)! 16th sept. Bristol. Plus Rebecca Rezakhani-Hilton and  @chaucercameron Women and the body Tickets headfirst hdfst.uk/e136816

Sculpting Poetry – From Lines on the Page to lines in Wire and Shadow - Portraits of Poems. A unique creative relationship between sculptor Noah James Saunders, revisioning poems from Lyon Street by Marc Zegans liberatedwords.com/2025/08/22/scu… @marczegan

Thrilled that prolific artist, performer, poet and filmmaker Lee Campbell has chosen Nocturne for a Lighterman to be part of his project The River Has no Colour. Combining riverine spoken word with film, it will be in Gravesend on Thursday, and many other moorings!

So honoured that Nocturne for a Lighterman (an ekphrastic family history poetry film) based on a painting by James McNeill Whistler has won BEST SOUND DESIGN at Bracciano Film and Arts Festival. Thank you Bracciano and Marc Neys for your atmospheric, minimal intricate work

Sarah Tremlett reads from Horse-Woman on Tuesday 18 may 7.30 - à poetic memoir about bohemian life as an artist and model in late 70’s London. Xxxx come and join in xx

On the Cutting Edge: 4 out now from Marc Zegans on Rich Ferguson’s  masterful poetry film What was Said at the Reunion of Deathbed Wishes .. the philosophy of living now … a deeply interesting essay, please come read.   liberatedwords.com/2025/05/16/on-… (liberatedwords.com/2025/05/16/on-…)

#e129550" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/the-j… Excited to read from my poetic memoir Horse-Woman (with screening) at John Sebastian Lightship, Bristol, for Poetry Film Club May 20th. An ‘otherkin’ poetic memoir - ups and down of being a fashion model writing and painting in a bohemian bedsit in London

So chuffed that Horse-Woman my ‘otherkin’ poetic memoir with reflections on being a fashion model and writing and painting in a London Bedsit is launching today at the Frye festival Canada. Thankyou Valerie and Daniel of Basic Bruegel Editions for all your advice and support 😘

Romanzi nelle i Italian ‘polypoet’ Enzo Minarelli – a legend in sound poetry is performing in London on Saturday April 5th at The Outsiders Gallery at 5 pm. Inspired by 13th-c mystic Abraham Abulafia the Kabbalah and language’. Check Liberatedwords.com for the article

Thrilled that Nocturne for a Lighterman is at REELpoetry, Houston,31/3. From TREE project, with sublime soundscape by Marc Neys. an ekphrastic film, a dialogue between Whistler and his painting Nocturne in Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge (c. 1872–5) and one of my ancestors.

Wonderful to present the latest edition of Marc Zegan’s exciting ON THE CUTTING EDGE 3 – Www.Liberatedwords .com on Peter Wortsman’s extraordinary work The Laboratory of Time and Other Cut-Up Poems Bamboo Dart Press, 2025

Must Read!!! Cutting Edge 2 out now on LW. Marc Zegans looks at the poetic craft of American Lo Galluccio and her collection Not for Amnesia, written in the early 90s after a romantic breakup. liberatedwords.com

Happy New Year and exciting new column On the Cutting Edge by leading US poet and filmmaker Marc Zegans on new poetry and film for Liberated Words. See overview no. 1 The Zombie Family Takes a Selfie by Ed McManis – Bottlecap Press, 2024. liberatedwords.com/2025/01/11/hap…

Over the moon - Solstice Sol Invictus in an exciting videopoetry curation by Alejandro Thornton at avant-POSVERSO Biennial Argentina, 6 December.  Augusto de Campos, Decio Pignatari,Tom Konyves, Montenegro Fisher POSVERSO on till 20th December. See liberatedwords.com