Thanks for these reports Mairead. The next best thing to being there.

Ian




>From: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: mairead byrne <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: SoundEye 11 Festival of the Arts of the Word Day 3 Part 1
>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:44:27 -0400
>
>Sorry about any errors, Giles.  I'll report on all the events day by day
>(except day 1 which I missed).  I'm way behind due to being a bit under the
>weather, plus travel.  I'm at home now and reports should be forthcoming.
>But the more the merrier, folks.
>Mairead
>
>On 7/10/07, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>  That's wonderful to come back and find the evening already written up
>>Mairead. You either have a tape recorder memory or are good at shorthand. 
>>It
>>was especially good for me to read this account, because sitting there for
>>this reading and being last on, I did not listen to the other readers with
>>as much attention as you did. So now I can revisit these other readers.
>>
>>None of my poems were actually from *Capital* this time, I was
>>concentrating on newer poems. The Greek word was 'oneiromachia', a battle
>>against dream. It was in the last issue of Warwick Review
>>http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/writingprog/warwickreview/. The
>>other poem you quote from was Doubles, this was in the last issue of Angel
>>Exhaust. It goes like this
>>
>>
>>The lord of the dance is the prince of darkness.Sorry about aN
>>
>>The storming of the Winter Palace is the evening news.
>>
>>
>>
>>The god of small things is the devil in the detail.
>>
>>The top of the morning is the bottom of the barrel.
>>
>>
>>
>>The old man and the sea is the dead rising.
>>
>>The heart of darkness is a light skin.
>>
>>
>>
>>The start of something beautiful is the end of the affair.
>>
>>The mist of time is the fog of war.
>>
>>
>>
>>The invisible man is manifest destiny.
>>
>>The wild swans at Coole are flights of fancy.
>>
>>
>>
>>God's gift to women is the eternal feminine.
>>
>>The call of the wild is the cry of the loon.
>>
>>
>>
>>A handful of dust is a fistful of dollars.
>>
>>The worm in the bud is the fruit of our labours.
>>
>>
>>
>>The land of the free is death's dream kingdom.
>>
>>The narrow road to the deep north is the M1.
>>
>>
>>
>>The proof of the pudding is one man's meat.
>>
>>The fly on the wall is the pattern in the carpet.
>>
>>
>>
>>The ghost in the machine is the genie out of the bottle.
>>
>>The decline of the west is the triumph of the will.
>>
>>
>>
>>A crumb of comfort is the best thing since sliced bread.
>>
>>The men they couldn't hang are the babes in the wood.
>>
>>
>>
>>The rust in the joints is the iron in the soul.
>>
>>The white of the eye is the light at the end of the tunnel.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>The ship of fools is the barge of state.
>>
>>A labour of love is the play of light.
>>
>>
>>
>>The way of all flesh is the corridors of power.
>>
>>The beast with two backs is what no man can put asunder.
>>
>>
>>
>>The rock of ages is the sand of time.
>>
>>The grapes of wrath are the fruit of crime.
>>
>>
>>
>>The man with no name is the unknown soldier.
>>
>>The tree of knowledge is the root of the matter.
>>
>>
>>
>>The republic of letters is the realm of the senses.
>>
>>The last judgement is the first prize.
>>
>>
>>
>>this is a kind of reading aloud poem, I'm not so sure if it works on the
>>page.
>>
>>
>>
>>I only wish I could have stayed for your reading on Sunday morning, just
>>about the same time as I was arriving back home in London. I hope someone
>>will report on how that was. I wish I had your kind of memory to report 
>>and
>>quote in details but for me the highlights of the festival (or that which 
>>I
>>saw) were: Maggie O'Sullivan, Jow Lindsay, Michael Smith reading the 
>>Vallejo
>>translations, Peter Manson, seeing Fanny Howe dance to rock and roll, the
>>Hafez translations, but everything was really good and the whole
>>concentrated atmosphere has given me this great feeling about the whole
>>range of possibilities that poetry can offer.
>>

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