Huge apologies for those I've not got back to here - was ill last year but
now I am back:-
I'm doing my first reading gig for over a year in Norwich at the 'Love Music
Hate Racism' event, Take 5 Cafe, 8 to late, Saturday 28th. Great if you can
make it.
I'll be reading/performing poems I wrote in the 70s and 80s, which is sad
because they SO fit today's world. "Sliced White" was published in Tribune
in 1977; "Bury St Edmunds" is about a NF march in that town in 1986; and
"fifty-seven pence" is about the unemployed training schemes of the late
1980s.
Nothing changes! And ALL changes.
The Occupy Movement is bringing in poetry - we've a Norwich Occupy camp and
it is better than University. Actually, it brings university students
together with all others. Great.
100 people attended a 'Hands off Iran' public meeting in Norwich last night.
We can't any longer allow Britain to be USA Imperial slaves! Of course, this
isn't poetry. Nothing is. Tahrir Square IS Poetry.
I think we need more the poetry of speech than text. For me, I'd actually
welcome discussion about reading types - voice - descriptive tongue -
percussion..
To be honest, I want back Sound Poetry - I want back Concrete Poetry.
Whether USA or UK, the Occupy Movement is taking on this Living Poetry.
Solidarity, Rupert Mallin
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