On this page you'll find Grace's Poetry Films.
Many of these poems feature in Grace's third collection
This meditative eco-poetry film celebrates the intimate world of grass. It explores what happens when we let our lawns go long, and it memorialises many of Ireland's wild grasses.
The first in Grace's film-poem sequence celebrating the Celtic Year. 'Imbolc, Vision' marks Brigit's Day, 1st February, and the ancient Festival of Imbolc. Commissioned by The Source Arts Centre, Thurles in 2022.
This is the second in Grace's quartet of poetry-films celebrating the 'Celtic Year'. Bealtaine is the first day of Summer, a chance to move back out of doors and celebrate a closer relationship with the natural world, or as the poem says the chance for a 're-wedding of the body to the earth'.
An inspiring exploration of a possible relationship with nature and the earth, based on the ancient Irish tradition of the High King, each year marrying the land, the Earth Goddess herself.
A meditative poem for the trees and the leaves as the Northern Hemisphere moves towards Winter, and the Southern Hemisphere moves into another too-dry season.
An eco-poetry film inspired by the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, and by the work of Mary Reynolds with her 'We are the Ark project'.
An eco-poetry film about the loss of the Irish curlew.
A meditative film that weaves embroidery and endurance.
A Sequence of poems commissioned by the Cashel Arts Festival to celebrate the Rock of Cashel. Video created by Denis Vahey.
From 'She Gathers the Wild Grasses', to be published in 'Home'.
From 'She Gathers the Wild Grasses', to be published in 'Home'.