Few photo-artists have come near the raw emotional resonance of his visual poetry.

It's a visual poetry of architecture, form, and wonder.

But visual poetry it is not.

It's hard work, but The Painted Bird deals in visual poetry that compels attention even as it wallows in unkindness.

Rarely have electrical storms, cloud formations and glowering skies had such an unnerving impact or expressed such dark visual poetry.

Full of visual poetry and grown-up subtext, it's still too good to simply be described as a "kids' movie".

He calls it a form of visual poetry but he could see the connection with dance and its potential appeal beyond signers.