Hi,
re wittering the similar
>The implication that the same old problem
>you identified nearly twenty years ago has not been dealt with and is still
>there is... well, not true.
I'd hazard its a mutant and potentially more virulent form of a problem
with remarkably familiar features.
That is, have we shifted formats and parameters for poetry readings any
substantial difference in the past two decades. Almost just for the heck of
getting a discussion going, i'd suggest not. If anything the inverse. Less
is tried, their are more paratextual restraints, our resources are
negatives. Can't claim any exception to that neither. Unlessing it's for
events 'outside' the ordinary rub of poetry readings.
When i hear Nicolas Johnson (for one example) introducing Barry MacSweeney,
much as a chairman might make a congratulatory speech at the Golf club's
annual dinner and when i get the following publicity for SIX Towns e-'d on
to me:
>>Saturday November 1st
>> 8pm HANNIBAL LECTER, MY FATHER
>> A Potteries premiere by star of post-modern letters KATHY ACKER &
>> revved-up Cubist speed-heat foil Tom Raworth
>>
>> Sunday November 2nd
>> 7.30pm CLEAN & WELL LIT
>> a bow out farewell reel with Neil Bell, body performer Aaron Williamson,
>> Helen MacDonald, Alice Notley (US), multi-instrumentalist Martyn Bennett
>> & Scotland's greatest folk poet since Burns, singer Hamish Henderson.
>>
I feel we've gone belly-up Jurassic into stereotypes beyond send up.
The problems are more acute if anything? More ingrained? Less challenged?
love and love
cris
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