Ah, I was wondering, although I can appreciate the attempt & the
position...
Doug
On 28-Feb-06, at 3:22 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Whoops, hit the wrong message for reply! Not that there's anything
> wrong
> with this but it might seem strange as its part of a dialogue on
> another
> list.
>
> Must do something about my specs.
>
> best
>
> dave
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 10:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Waiting for the hammer to fall in Britain
>
>
>> 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
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