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Hugh, "huge, stage fright.." true? I'm interested in terms of the symptoms you felt...general anxiety I guess...(without doing your course) what do you suggest to performers to overcome, what can be, a debilitating condition. I've never read before but have two readings coming up soon (Brisbane and Melbourne) so don't know whether I'll suffer or not, so (apart from this sounding very Dear Dorothy...) I'd thought I'd ask. cheers Clayton Hugh Tolhurst wrote: > In Melbourne, in Saturday's Age newspaper, there's a news > story called LIVE AND LOUD POETS ' SOCIETY > by Jane Sullivan. > > The piece is mainly about performance poetry but > poetryetc gets a mention:- > > 'The best e-zines include _Divan_, backed by Box Hill > TAFE; Alison Croggon's _Masthead_; Coral Hull's > _Thylazine_; and John Tranter's _Jacket_. John Kinsella, > the expatriate Australian poet based at Cambridge University, > has many Australian poets in touch with an international audience. > Ivor Indyk says our poets have developed an elaborate > international network online." > > Amidst the discussions of performance poetry, yours truly > gets the following mention:- > > "If you can't do showbiz, you learn. Hugh Tolhurst, poetry > editor at Black Pepper press, used to suffer from huge stage > fright when he began reading in public, but avoided the problem > by taking a performance class at the Victorian College of the Arts." > > If I could be excused from collaborating over Marziale, I'd > plead not wanting to compete with excellent Australian efforts > by Peter Porter _After Martial_ and Laurie Duggan _Martial's > Epigrams_ plus a renewed case of stage fright. > > best > > Hugh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%