Anne Waldman and Andrew Schelling read at SVP last night before a good-sized
audience.
Anne W had written some months before the reading _I would love to hear work
by you folk too, any chance of a group event?_ Therefore, before the reading
proper, there was a brief British reading in her honour, with 4 minutes per
poet, shorter by far than even the annual quick hits xmas celebration.
Lawrence Upton said the list was surely biased, because only he had chosen
the poets *and because not everyone had been able to attend, Carlyle Reedy
for instance, and a number he would have invited lived too far away to ask.
The poets who read were: Adrian Clarke, Bob Cobbing, Ken Edwards, Rob
Holloway, Frances Presley, Lawrence Upton and Johan de Wit. Apologising that
it was a _boy's night out_, Upton said that - why am I writing in third
person? - said that if distance had permitted he would also have invited
Patricia Farrell, Maggie O'Sullivan, Harriet Tarlo and many others.
Then the reading itself. Waldman and Schelling first performed their
_Riparian_, jointly written and published here in last night's issue of the
magazine. Then Schelling read. He translates from the literature of _old
India_ and in his opening remarks he offered us a translation of Blake's
Tiger, Tiger into Sanskrit!
And then Anne Waldman... who was in fine form, clear, witty, never over the
top at all but often walking along the very thin edge of it. Her performance
was somewhat subdued because all the chairs were out and there wasn't that
much room.
They finished with their _monk's and nun's_ translations from first century
BCE
There is a substantial magazine svp 1998 # 12 with a mass of poetry by each
of the poets and the reprint of _Riparian_. L2.50 incl payable to me
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