You're very welcome Alan - I have said to Erin that when next she is in UK
to consider herself invited to read again
I missed cris and Sinead courtesy of connex and lt... after 2 hrs travelling
i hadn't crossed the river... i can walk that far in about 3... and i just
gave up
it gets harder and harder just to get to the gigs
L
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Baker <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'British Poets' <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 25 November 1998 14:30
Subject: Reports from the Capital
|Two recent and rare visits to the capital have enabled me to sample britpo
in action,
|So I thought I'd post a brief report:
|
|#1
|Last Thursday I saw chris cheek and Sianed Jones doing music, poetry,
satire and?.well?
|voice/body special effects I suppose you could call it. A mix of cultures
and media produced
|what was for me a superb, mesmerising performance. The venue was the
umpromising
|Penny Black pub, Farringdon Road, and the audience was small (I reduced it
by 10% by
|leaving early to catch my train), but chris and Sianed did a professional
job despite this?
|
|good to see this type of work - poetry often posted
|to this list in the context that its meant to be seen in - complemented by
|music and other art forms. If this is half of Garam Masala, the full thing
must
|be quite something.
|
|To chris cheek - thanks, and sorry I had to leave early.
|
|#2
|On 3rd November I was lucky enough to catch the Canadian Erin Moure at the
SVP (3 Cups,
|Sandland Street). Others have written this up already, so to be brief,
she proved a witty
|and engaging reader, her North American staccato tones contrasting with the
english
|accent of Andy Brown, who also read. Obvious French influence, and I
particularly
|enjoyed the poem which alternated lines of French and English. She held up
pages to
|show the written format of her work, and also gave context and background
to some
|of her poems.
|
|Andy Brown gave an expressive reading, making good use of pause and stress
to
|set off his complex poetry. Again a small audience (who mostly seemed to
know
|each other).
|
|Thanks to Lawrence Upton for this event.
|
|Alan
|
|
|
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Lawrence Upton's website: http://members.spree.com/sip/lizard/
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"WORD SCORE UTTERANCE CHOREOGRAPHY in verbal and visual poetry"
edited by Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton
Writers Forum, London, 1998; 156 pp; ISBN 0 86162 750 4
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