Poster of Poem

Poem

Plot: A poignant short film set to the fourth part of Samuel Beckett's Quatre Poèmes, as narrated by frequent BS Johnson collaborator William Hoyland. The poem is read against a backdrop of associative shots: the head and sholders of a woman, a crumbling Victorian chimney stack, a forlorn row of houses, cobblestones, discarded rubbish, and a final tracking shot of a high wall
Release Date: Monday, November 15 1971
53 years ago
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Portrait of William HoylandWilliam Hoyland
William Hoyland was
28 in Poem
as 'voiceover'.
Fri, Jan 01 1943 –
Sun, Jan 01 2017

Crew

Portrait of B. S. JohnsonB. S. Johnson
B. S. Johnson was
38 in Poem
as 'Director'
Sun, Jan 01 1933 –
Mon, Jan 01 1973