Rupert, Jane
joolz was quite entertaining. I did feel a certain sadness in that her poems
are potentially quite good but she gravitates towards a kind of slack alice
prose all the time and hence knackers the poems. She is very much a
performer, one bit of noticeable manipulation was that instead of questions
being open to the audience people had to write down their questions which
were handed to her after a five minute break, that was a bit of audience
control too, not long enough for anyone to go anywhere but establishes the
artist's power, and then she answered selected questions from the written
list, a promise of verbal questions was made but of course it never
happened.
Having said that she was good fun, one bit, at which my heart initially
sank, was that she announced she was going to read a short story. Which she
did. it was based on New Model Army's experiences in the pop industry and
encountering the horrors of London, it was slangy and dishevelled at times
but really quite good. Some great jokes about tattos came out from her.
Good fun anyhow, if not really poetry. Problem is that there are people who
think not really poetry should be encouraged against the real thing.
There the head aches.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Waiting for the hammer to fall in Britain
> I think the hammer fell long ago Doug.
>
> while just trying to access the article I found the download being impeded
> by an animated cartoon of small fat nude guy carrying the slogan 'is your
> debt leaving you exposed?'
>
> This from The Guardian of all places.
>
> So I never got beyond the intro to the article.
>
> Did notice in the left-hand margin '57 Varieties of Hell'.
>
> Indeed. At the same time as the Governmental crap I was treated the other
> day to hearing a London based spokesman for Sunni Moslems (sheikh somebody
> or other) explaining that the recent bombing of the Shi'ite mosque in
> Baghdad was an American and British plot.
>
> God help us all.
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Waiting for the hammer to fall in Britain
>
>
> > This by David Edgar in The Guardian suggests that things are far worse
> > than I had realized. You Brits must all be waiting for the Lords'
> > judgement this afternoon & wondering.
> >
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1719716,00.html
> >
> > You'd think by now most people would understand that 'representation'
> > isn't 'reality' but no, not here, not 'there'....
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
> > Douglas Barbour
> > 11655 - 72 Avenue NW
> > Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
> > (780) 436 3320
> >
> > The stars wheel over
> > The Cross drops its image
> > Into the watertank.
> >
> > David Campbell
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