John Ormond's Organic Mosaic by Kieron Smith

John Ormond's Organic Mosaic by Kieron Smith

John Ormond was a poet and documentary filmmaker from Swansea, south Wales. His early poetry was published while he was a student in the 1940s and, upon graduation, Ormond moved to work as a journalist in London where he soon secured a job at the celebrated photojournalist magazine Picture Post. Having learned there to `think like a camera', he was employed by the BBC in Cardiff during the early days of television, and went on to become a pioneer of the documentary film form. In a uniquely dualistic creative career spanning five decades, Ormond made major contributions both to English-language poetry and documentary filmmaking. This book is the first in-depth examination of the fascinating correspondences between Ormond's twin creative channels: viewing his work against the backdrop of a changing Wales, it constitutes an important case study in the history of documentary filmmaking, in the history of British television, in inter-artistic creativity, and in the cultural history of Wales.

Kieron Smith is an Honorary Research Fellow at CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), Swansea University.

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ISBN 13	9781786834881
ISBN 10	178683488X
Title	John Ormond's Organic Mosaic
Author	Kieron Smith
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Wales Press
Year published	2019-11-15
Number of pages	224
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