I heard Peter Armstrong read a number of times, at CB1 in Cambridge,
around 2000. He had an appalling delivery, mumbling, interrupting himself,
giggling (at the audience?), not far from incoherent. It took a great
effort to hear the words. I recall hearing one rich
stream-of-consciousness sequence on Cambridge's Mill Road, with individual
elements connected by sometimes outrageous puns, both linguistic and
conceptual.
I know of one chapbook of his, from the small Cambridge publisher,
Firewater Press. They publish local poets, including attendees of the
local walk-in centre for those with mental health problems. I'll try & dig
up the details.
> The poet Peter Armstrong died on Wednesday in Carlisle.
>
> There was another poet called Peter Armstrong, of Bristol, but this is the
> one born 1948 who was a pupil of JH Prynne, studied Robert Duncan in
> Buffalo, and then lived for a long time in Cambridge. Author of several
> pamphlets of experimental poetry, mostly self-published.
>
|