Sunk Island

About this original series

Michael Blackburn. Writer and artist. Poetry, performance, fiction, video, landscape, conceptual, broken books. Lincolnshire, UK.

  • # Episodes

    34 episodes

  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Sunk Island

    • Play Big on the Hawkesbury - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Big on the Hawkesbury

      Promo vid for my chapbook of poems, Big on the Hawkesbury, published by The Knives Forks And Spoons Press (2010). Featured poem is "Dante's House of Horrors (An Extract)".

      • Release date
        Mar 21, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:59
    • Play Manly-Beach Babes Chase Birds - Lumiere - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Manly-Beach Babes Chase Birds - Lumiere

      A lumiere shot on the beach at Manly, Australia.

      • Release date
        Apr 24, 2009
      • Runtime
        01:24
    • Play Once Around The Appletree: Numbers Station - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Once Around The Appletree: Numbers Station

      A Numbers Station video. This time I even freaked myself a bit. Semanal08 week 10.

      • Release date
        Mar 9, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:29
    • Play A Lincolnshire Earthquake - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      A Lincolnshire Earthquake

      A poem about a previous earthquake in Lincolnshire, in 1992. semanal08, week 9.

      • Release date
        Mar 3, 2008
      • Runtime
        01:31
    • Play Ancient Fire: semanal08 - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Ancient Fire: semanal08

      Traditional fire in the hearth. Out in the country. Week 8.

      • Release date
        Feb 21, 2008
      • Runtime
        01:27
    • Play Breakfast With FT - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Breakfast With FT

      Lovely sesame toast and a cup of tea. Reading the FT to keep up with the fate of my millions. This could be a lumiere but I prefer it to run a little longer. Week 7.

      • Release date
        Feb 19, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:30
    • Play Ah, You Russians: semanal08 - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Ah, You Russians: semanal08

      A reading of a poem by Iain Crichton Smith, 'How Often I Feel Like You'.

      • Release date
        Feb 15, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:28
    • Play The Echo Room - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      The Echo Room

      The poet Brendan Cleary talks about the poetry revival in Britain during the 1980s and what inspired him to start 'The Echo Room', which became one of the seminal magazines of the decade. The anthology he mentions right at the beginning of the clip is 'In Dark Times', which is a selection of poems from the first 10 years of 'The Echo Room' . As such it is the most representative anthology of that time. And unfortunately out of print.The period from 1985 to 1995 witnessed a wide-scale, provinci...

      • Release date
        Feb 7, 2008
      • Runtime
        12:51
    • Play The Drowning Land: semanal08 - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      The Drowning Land: semanal08

      Obvious. Semanal08 week 5.

      • Release date
        Feb 5, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:56
    • Play Brendan Cleary Reads Three Poems: semanal08 - Sunk Island on Blip Sunk Island episodes on Blip

      Brendan Cleary Reads Three Poems: semanal08

      Brendan Cleary reads three poems from a forthcoming collection from Tall Lighthouse Press. semanal08 week 4.

      • Release date
        Feb 1, 2008
      • Runtime
        02:57
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