Thanks to Rob for his write up
I was disappointed that 2 poets who are not locals to London and so cannot
be seen that often did not attract a bigger audience... I know the doing is
the thing; I know no one has contracted; there's probably other aspects to
it I should or do know
Fact remains that though it was a reasonable gate we still lost money and
there is a limit to that
Fact remains that Peter Riley thought it was worth coming from Cambridge so
SVP must have been doing something right
Fact remains that previous events have been well attended - it was probably
a football match or a bumper Eastenders or something
Or you were all washing your hares
Ah well, on we go until we go broke and if we go broke then we stop
28pp Magazine containing work by Andy Brown, Erin Moure and Barry
MacSweeney, plus pubs received, events coming up, picture of Jackson Mac
Low, brief obits on Dick Higgins, adverts for books and colloquium - that's
svp98-19 £1.50 incl. p & p in UK
17th November 98 Robert Hampson and Dell Olsen. You're all invited you know
btw Rob I shall make a point of holding you at least once at future SVPs
L
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From: Rob Holloway <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 04 November 1998 00:42
Subject: Erin Moure at SVP
|Hi all,
|
|a brief, immediate registering of delight at seeing and hearing Erin
|Moure at SubVoicive tonight (with Andy Brown, but I'll leave it to
|Lawrence to give a full 'write-up'). As I described to Lawrence and
|Peter R afterwards, it was like you were watching/listening to a crystal
|grow before your eyes and ears - each phrase, delicate, light, finessing
|its way with firm direction and poise to an ever-growing complex whole
|formation that never worried about completion- each phrase coming from
|very different starting points but working with common tendency - the
|effect simply startling (and reminding me of Norma Cole when she read at
|Miles Champion's One In The Other series not long back)
|Vital also to Moure is the physical process of her reading - as
|mentioned by someone (sorry, can't remember who) after seeing her read
|up North last week - facial gestures, intonation, an 'awkwardness' of
|mood/manner, nothing forced, all occurring as integral to her experience
|of living in and with the poem as she is presenting it to the audience.
|All working to create the opportunity for consistent engagement by those
|in the audience. I can honestly say I was 'held' from the first word to
|the last, not an experience I've often had at SV, and yet I came out
|lightened by feathers.
|Many thanks Lawrence for 'scooping' her before she returned to Canada
|and for those who didn't make it: fools.
|
|lovin' it
|
|rob
|--
|Rob Holloway
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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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