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MacAdam Takes to the Sea

From The North End of the Possible

This poem was made into a film by Alastair Cook. The film was commissioned for the second Hidden Door festival in Edinburgh and premiered in October 2010. It was also screened at StAnza, Scotland’s international poetry festival, in March 2011. Watch it here: Filmpoem 8.

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Amy Jo Philip

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