or what about I just run a festival?

Because I was young and foolish and full of the devil and thought that anything was quite possible.

And so I got on the phone.

I talked to my partner, Sandy, at the time.

And then basically I just got on the phone and called every poet I had number for and said, do you think this is a good idea? And they all said yes.

And then when I got to the last phone call, I went drat.

They all said it was a good idea.

What are you up to now?

flows through yeah i think as somebody who saw it obviously you prepared these um and sent them to me to have a look at but as on my first viewing i was or first listening really because i think the the reader was just so um it was such a powerful tone to this ee cummings poem who's the reader in that

i I have a story to tell here from my background research.

So, OK, the title for the reader, and I wonder if this title means anything to you, is Tom O'Bedlam.

Tom O'Bedlam is a pseudonym.

It's not a real name.

It's actually the title of a 17th century anonymous poem.

And Tom O'Bedlam was a name used to describe beggars and vagrants who either had or pretended to have a mental illness at the time.

but it doesn't, yeah, it manages to not enter into that cliche entirely.

And then we've got the visualizations of that, which are quite striking and very boldly animated.

Yeah.

So let me do my same spin on this.

What are you not seeing at home? So this piece, first of all, the first thing to say about this is this is vertically formatted.

So it's going to look right if you're watching it on a phone as you would be watching a video on TikTok or something like that.

The actual cinematography itself, it's an animation.

So the style is very graphic.

So