 During this period her mother had died , and Bryher had divorced her husband , only to marry H.D. ' s new male lover , Kenneth Macpherson . H.D. , Bryher , and Macpherson lived together and traveled through Europe as what the poet and critic Barbara Guest termed in her biography of H.D. as a ' menagerie of three . ' Bryher and Macpherson adopted H.D. ' s daughter , Perdita . In 1928 , H.D. became pregnant but chose to abort the pregnancy in November . Bryher and Macpherson set up the magazine Close Up ( to which H.D. regularly contributed ) as a medium for intellectual discussion of cinema . In 1927 , the small independent film cinema group <unk> or Pool Group was established ( largely funded with Bryher 's inheritance ) and was managed by all three . Only one <unk> film survives in its entirety , Borderline ( 1930 ) , which featured H.D. and Paul Robeson in the lead roles . In common with the Borderline novellas , the film explores extreme psychic states and their relationship to surface reality . As well as acting in this film , H.D. wrote an explanatory pamphlet to accompany it , a piece later published in Close Up . 
