>There is a new dilemma in reading in bookshops since the advent of the
>coffee shop. The espresso machine. I have read and been to numerous
>readings this last year where poems battled and lost to the agressive
>swoosh of frothing milk. So much for bookshop/cafes being the haven of
>groovy poet types.
I did a reading at Borders recently where I experienced not only the
expresso machine, but various bookshop announcements that somehow entered
the microphone like a doppelganger. Not to mention the lack of ambient
lighting, which made me feel pinned to the wall like a strange insect...
Alison
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