The idea of pairing video as a compliment to poetry is not new. Nor is this particular take on the combination of the two; it seems the video creates a plausible scene in which the poet, or speaker, have come to their particular feeling and, thus, what I would like to call the "atmosphere" of the poem.

What I find interesting about this video is the fact that it seems to be used as a device for marketing a collection of poems (as evidence, consider the we address at the end of the video).

It is an interesting sort of question to ask how people in general decide which sorts of books they choose to read or consume.

There is a realist point here that if poems can be sucessfully marketed via poem and video then no small to medium sized publishing house can afford to miss out on what is really very inexpensive marketing.

In a dramatic first, "things that I like," is adding our first poet! This is a big step in establishing a broad base of internet based creativety.

Maureen Evans is an exciting young poet from the Canadian Northwest.

Here is the bio from her website.

To follow her and get regular poems (or parts of poems) here is Maureen's Twitter