Good Definition (2003)

Good Definition

A filmpoem by Anneliese Holles, Naomi Foyle, Richard Miles and Amy Hope.

Videopoem by Naomi Foyle and Anneliese Holles, with camera, editing and SFX by Amy Hope & music by Richard Miles. Poem available in The Night Pavilion by Naomi Foyle (Waterloo Press, 2008). Winner of the 2004 Hastings Word About Town Festival Videopoem Competition. Also screened in Berlin, New York City and in the online gallery of Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe conference (University of Vienna and Literatur Haus Wein, 2025).

Collaborations

Theatre

ASTRA (2022)

The Strange Wife

Hush: An Opera in Two Bestial Acts

The Snow Queen

Filmpoems

Salt, Snow, Earth

Ways of Seeing Trees

Good Definition

Music

Johnny Boyfriend is an audio piece by Naomi Foyle with music by Richard Miles. 9mins 30sec.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

Urban Pillow is the spoken word/electronica duo Naomi Foyle and Richard Miles.

Urban Pillow works include:

'Forgive the Rain' (34'33"). Featuring poems by Rumi and Naomi Foyle and recordings of zippers and steam engines (1997).
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

'Liberties' (3'16''). Two libertines in a Montreal railyard meet Jean Genet and a pack of stray dogs. A shaggy ink cap story from Aphrodite's Answering Machine.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here

'Not Quite Arrived' (5'19''). From the limited edition CD Aphrodite's Answering Machine (2003), a prose-poem about transience and vulnerability, inspired by Lady Godiva, Nico's passport ('No Fixed Address'), an elegant Montreal squatter, and a cocktail bar in Seoul.
Listen to it on Soundcloud here