NEW POETRY FILM: 'CAMP' (2022)
‘I enjoyed: “Neo fantastical” “Discounts applied” “East Life” hahaha “Favour/waver” Clever lens and absolutely lovely drawings Lee. This has a very powerful message’
This short poetry film contains drawings of Butlins holiday camp in Minehead, U.K that I made whilst on holiday there in 1990 and poetry that I wrote in 2022.
The sentimentality and nostalgia within the drawings of Butlins are ripped apart by poetry that discusses how queer people have been silenced in the past: ‘This holiday camp where the camp was for straights as campy redcoats were instructed by their bosses not to come out’/ This sets up the context for me to discuss my concerns with LGBT allyship in poetry that is humorous in tone but vehemently angry,: ‘You reduced me to a sandwich, who the hell are you trying to kid? Switching BLT with LBT just to make a few more quid’.
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