Impressed at people reading poems on Catamarans -must try it
Cheers P
Ps VB is a Catamount
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Sent: 22 April 2008 22:43
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Subject: Re: Human Genome, Rhythm and Catalan
PS
while I was writing the message below the radio programme concluded
with the Northumbrian poet Katrina Porteous reading a piece which,
although I was only half-listening to it, seemed clearly to transmit
some sort of sense of a shape.
Anyhow, the programme will be avalable for 7 days via BBC Radio on the
web, if anyone wants to listen.
Best
Dave
On 22/04/2008, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I've just been listening to BBC Radio 3's 'Night Waves' programme, as
> a break from reading poems in Catalan (I hope you are all suitably
> impressed with the pretentiousness of that statement). It included the
> Scots poet Gillian K. Ferguson whose Internet developed sequence on
> the human genome, Poems from the Book of Life, is to be launched, it
> said, this weekend.
> Actually it already seems to be up and running, if you go to:
>
> http://www.thehumangenome.co.uk/THE_HUMAN_GENOME/About.html
>
> and take it from there, it gives the poet and the project. My point of
> interest, though, for I confess I've only glanced at her site so far,
> was that while listening to her read on the radio I could discern
> nothing about the form or particular rhythms of the writing. There was
> possibly a sense of a slightly more heightened rhythm than you would
> get from prose but nothing more. That's not a judgement on her
> writing, but a few moments' impression of what comes across.
> Having said that, I'll go back now to the marvellous sound patterns of
> Josip Vicent's Catalan, with whom I'll be reading on Monday night
> next. (I plan on doing something with the plain English translations I
> have of them)
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
>
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