I bought one of Tempest's books on the grounds that "performance poetry" was something new. I not convinced it isn't Luke On 30 January 2018 at 15:05, gilesgoodland <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > That was Peter Burgers argument. That the avant garde had its historic > moment and died around > 1922 > > Sent from Samsung Mobile > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: David Lace > Date:30/01/2018 14:48 (GMT+00:00) > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Rebecca Watts > > You have a point there Luke. Also visual poetry could be called > avantgarde. But all other poetry can't really be defined as mainstream or > avantgarde. So only sound and visual poetry are really avantgarde - as > reason dictates. > > > > > > > ------------------original message--------------------------- > > An extreme example is sound poetry, unless you want to say that it's too > late to be avant garde. > > Luke >