Would you like to show the poetry films at your event or venue?

The Salons’ short film collections are adaptable to a range of viewing experiences, both private and public, small and large scale, including

  • flatscreen monitors with headphones

  • large scale projection screen, indoor and outdoor

Vessels of Love is an annual poetry program presented by Poetry Sydney that seeks to explore ideas and forms of love over the week of Valentine’s Day, 8-14 February.

Our 2026 program focuses thematically on love’s forces of abundance and decay through the poetic works of seven Australian artists: Faye Couros, Willo Drummond, Martin Edmond, Ethan Price, Pooja Mittal Biswas, Michele Seminara, and through the guardianship of Lenore Bassan, Minnie Agnes Filson (1898-1971).

Technical

Duration: 40 minutes

Format: mp4, available in full HD and 2K, DCP available on request

Accessibility

Subtitles embedded. Please note The Commons contains coarse language and adult themes, and Murder / suicide references electroshock therapy, murder and suicide.