Poems, Stories and Writings 2/eMargaret Tait (1918 1999) was a pioneering filmmaker for whom words and images made the world real. In documentary, she wrote, real things lose their reality and theres no poetry in that. In poetry, something else happens. If film, for Tait, was a poetic medium, her poems are works of craft and observation that are generous and independent in their vision of the world, poems that make seeing happen. Sarah Neely, Lecturer in Film at the University of