I wouldn't want to miss that - after I make it down under?
On 3/23/07, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A poetryetc reading would be cool - maybe Sydney?
>
> Androo
>
>
> On 23/03/07, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, the wine was less available after that. I have a feeling that it
> > was someone's first time running the readings - I think they get the
> > MA students to run a series of readings every year. The guest readers
> > tend to be from the gene-pool, but with the occasional interesting one
> > thrown in - Tom Paulin, an American-Korean poet who was very
> > interesting but whose name I forget. It depends who's visiting the UK
> > as well.
> >
> > That sounds like a good reading there.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > On 3/22/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > they never made a table groan with free wine again? it all went down
> > hill?
> > >
> > > i do go to quite a few readings here in Oz - and free wine is not the
> > norm -
> > > but there was a rather excellent Xmas party at Sapphos reading in Sydney
> > I
> > > went to last year - free wine and free food and dvds handed out to all
> > the
> > > readers (I got a Kurosawa) - but the fall out from that night was
> > > extraordinary. I introduced two people and I got up early this morning
> > to
> > > try and finally ring one of them and deal with the fall out. It wasn't a
> > > simple love thing - a third person did the love thing - but as I sit
> > here
> > > with my cup of tea and build my strength to ring and sort - I can't help
> > but
> > > think it would have been better to simply not have gone to the reading.
> > >
> > > cheers - jen
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----Original Message Follows----
> > > From: Roger Day <[log in to unmask]>
> > > Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V.
> > Beatles
> > > ))
> > > Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 17:17:47 +0000
> > >
> > > I enjoyed that story the first and I enjoyed re-reading it, thankyou.
> > >
> > > the free wine reminded me of a Cambridge University reading. We, the
> > > listeners, sat round this huge table, the readers at the head. At the
> > > back of the room was this huge table groaning under the weight of
> > > *free* wine. Lots of it. I remember thinking then that this set a high
> > > standard for drinks at readings, and that I should attend uni readings
> > > more often. I think I stopped before I became too incoherent. I had a
> > > very bad head the next day. alas, it wasn't repeated.
> > >
> > > Roger
> > >
> > > On 3/20/07, Jennifer Compton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >may i give you guys a link to my story about meeting lou reed in genoa?
> > > >
> > > >http://www.poetrykit.org/pkmag/pkmag4/031.htm
> > > >
> > > >plus photo
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >----Original Message Follows----
> > > >From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >Reply-To: "Poetryetc: poetry and poetics" <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >Subject: Re: Lou Reed (was RE: Musical tastes, Calla (Re: Stones V.
> > Beatles
> > > >))
> > > >Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:08:35 -0400
> > > >
> > > >Wojhan's sequence of poems about rock & blues, _Mystery Train_ is well
> > > >worth
> > > >taking a look at. It's in a book b y the same name.
> > > >
> > > >jd
> > > >
> > > >On 3/20/07, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >Another Jedi Mind Trick on me, via Roger. The Velvet Underground
> > > > >encompasses the late Sixties/early Seventies for me--decadence, a
> > smelly
> > > > >brilliance. Lou Reed at least survived his excesses. At the very
> > least,
> > > > >the album "New York" is a treasure. Of what? You tell me. And of
> > > >course
> > > > >HIS version of "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" made Jim Stafford's
> > cover
> > > > >truly pathetic. But that's AM radio for ya: you can't talk about
> > giving
> > > > >head on the radio when the impressionable teenagers are
> > > > >listening. Ha. On
> > > > >the first VU album Reed performed "Heroin," perhaps the holy of
> > holies if
> > > > >you like horror songs, and let's just say it's more than borderline
> > > > >accurate
> > > > >in terms of words and their connection to the music. Reed has a face
> > > >like
> > > > >10 miles of bad road now, and he traveled every inch of it to get
> > that
> > > > >way.
> > > > >
> > > > >There's a wonderful poem by David Wojahn, a monologue on the subway
> > by
> > > > >Reed
> > > > >back in 1966, returning from Delmore Schwartz's viewing. That's how
> > I
> > > > >learned Reed was Schwartz's student at Syracuse University. Small
> > wonder
> > > > >one of them survived.
> > > > >
> > > > >Ken
> > > > >--
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> > > >
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