May's Poetry Film Club will feature Sarah Tremlett (MPhil, FRSA, leading, British, prize-winning poetry filmmaker, poet, artist and theorist, and editor of Liberated Words online) reading from and talking about her new publication, and showing a poetry film from it. Her commissioned poetic memoir Horse-Woman (Basic Bruegel Editions, Canada, April, 2025) relates to a traumatic period earlier in her life when she was working as a fashion model whilst painting and writing in a bohemian London bedsit. As an emotionally isolated child, with elderly parents, and an inability to verbalise, Sarah Tremlett was given a young horse to look after, which ultimately was sold against her wishes. Following her animal empathy and bonding, in this ‘stream of consciousness’ account of events, Sarah’s psyche creates a mythical, ‘otherkin’ horse persona which protects and interweaves with her experiences in the fashion world. The book contains paintings from the time, including Horse-Woman, and the cover Cowboy Riding the Horse of the World to Death (see image extract) was a response to how London’s poetic decay was being taken over by developers. A parallel to ‘Women coming and going in a room’ is referred to from T.S. Eliot’s ‘Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, but with ambiguous connotations, since it was one of the A-level texts that ended one part of her life. The prologue ‘Flight’ is also a poetry film, centred on her early relationship with her mother.

As usual, there will be plenty of time for discussion.

Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio — Read more — Read less