Saw BBC 4’s programme on performance poetry last night. It mentioned a guy named Murray Lachlan Young who apparently was a big deal in UK performance poetry in the 90s but has now gone to ground. I’d never heard of him before last night, and I was very much interested in performance poetry in that decade.
The programme also mentioned a Kate Tempest, praising her to the hilt. I just thought her stuff derivative. But I’m not that young and so maybe a hip-hop element is de rigueur in performance poetry now.
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