Hi Max and anyone interested -I did my reading just a ten minute jobbie!
The audience small around 25? Mostly ancients but with a smithering of
youngsters -it was a cold audience they (many) did not seem to get what I
was reading -it was a music/folk group manly gathering ( sense of being on
holiday for me after performance!!)
How did others do?
Ps liked the idea 'signal for joke' unless it goes wrong embarrassing
what!!was the signal a large flag waved over his head??
Now for a quiet day (Janet still muttering about retiring -will have to
guard my 'space'!!
-----Original Message-----
From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: 28 July 2008 00:43
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Subject: Re: snap: dear doctor c
Patrick, and others currently out and about at readings, Colorado and
elsewhere,
do let the list know how they went...
Max
Last one I went to, the Melbourne Poets' Union, was dominated by an enormous
young male ego reciting endlessly from memory while my wife and I in the
front
row kept our heads down.
Then he introduced the guest of honour, Geoff (Geof?) Page, a Canberra poet
of
great achievement over several decades, and while Geoff read, our chairman
laughed loudly at all the jokes and often at moments when I hadn't sensed
Geoff
had signalled 'joke'.
Quoting Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Cheers MaxI am feeling like that and I am supposed to be doing a reading
> tonight!
> P
>
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> Dear Doctor C,
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