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Hi all, a brief, immediate registering of delight at seeing and hearing Erin Moure at SubVoicive tonight (with Andy Brown, but I'll leave it to Lawrence to give a full 'write-up'). As I described to Lawrence and Peter R afterwards, it was like you were watching/listening to a crystal grow before your eyes and ears - each phrase, delicate, light, finessing its way with firm direction and poise to an ever-growing complex whole formation that never worried about completion- each phrase coming from very different starting points but working with common tendency - the effect simply startling (and reminding me of Norma Cole when she read at Miles Champion's One In The Other series not long back) Vital also to Moure is the physical process of her reading - as mentioned by someone (sorry, can't remember who) after seeing her read up North last week - facial gestures, intonation, an 'awkwardness' of mood/manner, nothing forced, all occurring as integral to her experience of living in and with the poem as she is presenting it to the audience. All working to create the opportunity for consistent engagement by those in the audience. I can honestly say I was 'held' from the first word to the last, not an experience I've often had at SV, and yet I came out lightened by feathers. Many thanks Lawrence for 'scooping' her before she returned to Canada and for those who didn't make it: fools. lovin' it rob -- Rob Holloway %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%