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.
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