I’m well aware that poetry doesn’t always connect with everyone. Words on a screen can be easy to glance over and neglect, especially in today’s world of immediacy. I wanted to create something that brought my poetry to life and make it more approachable. So a few months ago my friend Ben was in London. With an afternoon to spare, we decided to put together a short 1 minute visual to accompany a poem I wrote called ‘Baker Street: this could well be it’.

This is a poem about a fictional man. He takes the same journey on the London Underground every day to a job that does nothing to inspire him. He is despondent and submerged in feelings of melancholy. He feels like a robot, enslaved within a system he had no desire to sign up for.

Everyday he trudges himself to the underground platform at Baker Street tube station, waiting both patiently and impatiently at the same time. On some days as he looks around hazily at others and then hears the sound of the train approaching, he thinks to himself that ‘this could well be it’.