It sounds like a moving performance, indeed, Dave, & worthwhile too.... Can you say a bit more about how they raised questions about the claims of performance poetry? Doug On 27-Jan-06, at 12:11 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > But we also have the duality (war at times) between poetry as > performance and poetry as literature of the page and it was > interesting to reflect that these poets' performances were just as > good as you often get at performance events, if anything, rather than > raising questions about literary poetry they raised queries at the > claims of performance poetry. Douglas Barbour 11655 - 72 Avenue NW Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9 (780) 436 3320 it's Sappho I said, on the radio Daphne Marlatt