thank you for that & yes it does make me more miserable but thanks
and I dont mind getting 2 messages for one
makes me feel twice as liked as I really am
L
From: Elizabeth James <[log in to unmask]>
To: british & irish poets <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 10 September 1999 19:15
Subject: Re: WILKINSON TO BE LAUNCHED IMMINENTLY
| report(s) on last night's barque reading
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| Sorry if this increases your chagrin Lawrence, but it was an excellent
| evening. Good audience, good atmosphere, fine readings. Thinking of
| recent discussions of performance, in relation to different styles:
| Peter Manson, having warned us that Glaswegians mumble, read (first)
| with clarity, a great accent that finds out the energy in words (sorry
| for rp-speaker's sentimentalism about the picturesqueness of regional
| accents) and a kinda dark soft texture of voice. A serious intense
| transmission of poetry more contained than some of his other work. John
| Wilkinson (reading third) 'spoke out' engagingly and projected more
| openly; his lines very rhythmically driven. Reading mainly from
| the Barque book of his earlier work, something changed when he finished
| with one from the new Equipage pamphlet: the voice became slightly
| softer, more exploratory? (I liked this best). Drew Milne (sandwich
| slot), sitting not standing, signalled a more inward relationship to his
| work and, yes, it was (for me) harder to get on the case as a listener.
| Kept getting distracting peripheral flashes of J.H. Prynne's red tie.
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| Won't someone else talk about the work, after this brief impression of
| the performances? Anyway it was a great night out & I hope Barque sold
| lots of books.
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| p.s. In order not to send this twice to Lawrence, I hit Reply to all and
| then deleted his name from the To: line
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