on 3/7/01 10:45 AM, Frank Parker at [log in to unmask] wrote: > As for me, I have this dumb insistence that words matter outside their > reference to my persona. At the same time I do give on helluva reading! Frank, Glad to be of some help. But, hey, I'm just one Aust poet among many. And, yeah, I love to read as well - the body in the art is important - and when I'm on I'm *on*. But there are very few places in Sydney these days to read and most of them seem to be for 'performance' poets - nothing wrong with that but I feel like an interloper, the equivalent of Chris' grey beard and suit and tie ('cept I don't have a beard - would it help, I wonder - and the hair is natural blonde straight from the bottle). Cheers, Jill _________________________________ Jill Jones 50 Ruby Street Marrickville NSW 2204 AUSTRALIA [log in to unmask] http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~jpjones