Book of Hours

Lucy English is a novelist, spoken word poet and poetry filmmaker. Short films from her poetry film project, The Book of Hours, (2018) have now been screened at over thirty international short film festivals. Two films won first and second prize for the Atticus Review Video Poetry competition in 2018. Two more films from the project were part of an international curation of poetry films touring Australia, US, Nepal, and The Wrong Digital Biennale from 2018-20. The whole project was shortlisted for the New Media Writing prize in 2019 and is now held on the British Library database of digital work. https://thebookofhours.org/ Her recent project Cancer Alley (2024) is a poetry film hologram installation This was shown at The Watershed, Bristol for four days during the 2024 Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. The original poetry film for this project has been screened at over 20 short film festivals including Zebra, Fotogenia, Jafest and Archfilm https://canceralleyproject.com/ Lucy English has three novels published by Fourth Estate and three collections of poetry published by Burning Eye Books. She is the co-director the Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival and Professor of Creative Enterprise at Bath Spa University.

`The work that Lucy English has done on The Book of Hours, exploring and expanding the emerging genre of the poetry film, is inspiring. She is pushing the boundaries of what poetry can do while bringing the medieval tradition of the book of hours into the twenty-first century.’ - Dr Kate Pullinger, Director of the Centre for Culture and Creative Industries, Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media, Co-Investigator, Ambient Literature; `The Book of Hours is a hugely ambitious and important experiment in collaborative poetry filmmaking, raising the bar for other poets interested in moving beyond the page and the stage, and demonstrating the unique appeal of film series and video anthologies in a lyrical, non-narrative mode.’ - Dave Bonta, publisher of Moving Poems movingpoems.com; `The thing I really like about The Book of Hours is its almost endless hospitality to new and different inputs. It’s a brilliant `frame’ into which very different inputs can `flow’.’ -Philip Gross, poet & winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize