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Joe Biden reads “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

Posted on January 20, 2021 by julian peters comics

In honour of today’s inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, here is a video put together by Jim Avis pairing my comics adaptation of Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” with a more-than-competent reading … Continue reading →

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Video of “The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth

Posted on December 2, 2020 by julian peters comics

A very amusing video by Jim Avis, based on my comics adaptation of William Wordsworth’s c. 1802 sonnet, “The World Is Too Much With Us.” The reading is by Tom Hiddleston. 2020, a year in which, for many, the world … Continue reading →

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Video of “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Posted on November 9, 2020 by julian peters comics

A beautiful and moving video by Jim Avis, pairing my comics adaptation of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Spring and Fall” with a musical interpretation of that same poem by Natalie Merchant. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can … Continue reading →

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Video of “Conscientious Objector” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Posted on October 29, 2020 by julian peters comics

With Halloween around the corner, here is a suitably eerie video adaptation by Jim Avis of my own comics interpretation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poem “Conscientious Objector” (1934). The poem is read by Natalie Rushing. The original comics adaptation, … Continue reading →

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Video of “When You Are Old” by William Butler Yeats

Posted on October 10, 2020 by julian peters comics

A beautiful anime-adjacent video interpretation by James Avis of my comics adaptation of William Butler Yeats’s poem “When You Are Old.” The drawings are a homage to the Japanese shojo manga tradition, and particularly to the work of the CLAMP … Continue reading →

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Video of “may my heart always be open to little” by e e cummings

Posted on September 23, 2020 by julian peters comics

A delightful interpretation by Jim Avis of one my poetry comics, this time my adaptation of “may my hear always be open to little” by e e cummings. The original comics adaptation, along with 23 others, can be found in … Continue reading →

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Video of “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley

Posted on August 21, 2020 by julian peters comics

A new video interpretation by Jim Davis of my comics adaptation of William Ernest  Henley’s classic poem “Invictus” (1875). Avis has added a surprise flourish to the final drawing, one that I feel is in keeping with Henley’s theme of … Continue reading →

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Video of “Somewhere or Other” by Christina Rossetti

Posted on August 7, 2020 by julian peters comics

A very sensitive video adaptation by Jim Avis of my comics interpretation of Christina Rossetti’s poem “Somewhere or Other.” I find this one makes particularly effective use of Avis’s signature zooming technique. The terrific reading is by “the Wordman” and … Continue reading →

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Video of “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden

Posted on July 27, 2020 by julian peters comics

Another video interpretation by Jim Avis of my comics interpretation of the poem “Those winter Sundays” by the American poet Robert Hayden (who by the way studied under W. H. Auden, who was featured in the last Jim Avis video … Continue reading →

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Video of “Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden

Posted on July 19, 2020 by julian peters comics

Another great video interpretation by Jim Avis, this time of my comics adaptation of W. H. Auden’s “Musée des Beaux Arts.” The reading is by the poet himself. Auden’s oft-anthologized poem is thought to obliquely criticize the Western powers’ ignoring … Continue reading →

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