A Poem For Every Autumn Day: A Light in Dark Times. Starring Helena Bonham Carter & Tobias Menzies

Award-winning actors Helena Bonham Carter, Tobias Menzies and Jamael Westman join Allie Esiri at Edinburgh International Book Festival for A Poem for Every Autumn Day: A Light in Dark Times, directed by Paul Weiland, with fascinating introductions to each poem written and introduced by Allie Esiri. With poems selected from Allie Esiri’s anthology, A Poem for Every Autumn Day.
A glorious film, with first class performances.

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Curator and presenter
Allie Esiri

Lute Player / Music Composer
Andrew Maginley

Little Frieda
Elfie Weiland

Director
Paul Weiland

Producer
Madeleine Sanderson

Production Assist
Sophia Nagar

Lighting Cameraman
Henry Braham

First Assistant Camera
Dermot Hickey

Nano Head Technician
Joe Marsden

Sound Recorder
Patrick Owen

Make-up Artist
Louise Constad

Shrimps Wardrobe
Aina Carafi

Editor
Louise MacGregor

Photographer
Ana Cuba

Second Unit
Max Weiland
Joe Weiland

Sound Design
Nicholas Davies

Catering
Kathy Crowley
Tina Stubings

Running List:
Hurrahing in Harvest by Gerard Manley Hopkins read by Tobias Menzies (01:45)
The Hurt Boy and the Birds by John Agard read by Jamael Westman (03:20)
A Word is Dead by Emily Dickinson read by Helena Bonham Carter (04:53)
The Right Word by Imtiaz Dharker read by Jamael Westman (05:28)
Leaves by Ted Hughes read by Helena Bonham Carter and Tobias Menzies (07:32)
The Pheasant by Sylvia Plath read by Helena Bonham Carter (10:31)
Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes read by Tobias Menzies (12:57)
Paper Boats by Rabindranath Tagore read by Jamael Westman (14:16)
Digging by Seamus Heaney read by Tobias Menzies (16:06)
Western Wind, When Wilt Thou Blow? read by Jamael Westman (18:18)
Letter to NY by Elizabeth Bishop read by Helena Bonham Carter (19:35)
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley read by Tobias Menzies (21:29)
Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith read by Helena Bonham Carter (23:12)
When You Are Old by W. B. Yeats read by Tobias Menzies (24:50)
A Shropshire Lad, XIII by A. E. Housman read by Jamael Westman (25:58)
But I Can't by W. H. Auden read by Tobias Menzies (27:21)
This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams read by Helena Bonham Carter (29:00)
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams read by Tobias Menzies (29:41)
The Guest House by Rumi read by Helena Bonham Carter (30:01)
Love after Love by Derek Walcott read by Helena Bonham Carter (31:40)
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost read by Tobias Menzies (33:12)

Filmed on location at Belcombe Court, Wiltshire, England.