Hello Im from Canada (Montreal) and I was wondering if anyone has
read or seen Jeff Nuttall. He was (is?) a poet who had written Bomb
Culture (published 69) and two other works of prose. The first was also a
work of prose. He had been published in the PEnguin series way back then
as well. I don' t know if he is alive or dead. I havent seen any of his
work around for years. He was (in Bomb Culture and other prose works which
followed it), a terrific essayist and cultural chronicler.
	About myself I've published two books to date, done lots of work
with musicans, released a cassette in 95. Earlier work was released on a
cassette called Wired on Words. A  "spoken word" deal as it's called. I am
not by the way a "spoken word" artist (however many genres of expression
that term might encompass), but I was a self-decscribed performance poet.
I think there are some very fine and spohisticated differences between the
two. One of my interests in contemporary poetics is that difference and
how it works or doesn't work etc. I am also very interested in the
possiblities of the prose poem and how it has been effected by the closer
inter-action between theory and the writing of poetry.
	I am also really interested in the poetry of Ted Hughes. I just
recently bought a copy of the Faber selected/new poems and Winter Pollen -
his prose. I was also wondering if any of you had seen Ted Hughes reading.
Recentlyor at any time in the past ... Why? Well I am very interested (as
well!) in the stance of the poet when she reads. Does he sit, does she
stand, how does she stand or sit or lean. 
	Does Ted Hughes Read or Recite(by heart), or does he combine the
two? I saw a video of him reading and it was very cleverly done. He speaks
of the poem (sets it up), and as he starts to actually read the text,
the camera cuts away to a visul of the poem. Very nice, very effective.
But what does he do live? Does he the same thing at each reading. How long
does Hughes read for, or does it depend on who he is reading with? HAs
anyone seen Ted Hughes read with Seamus Heaney? Do the they read similarly
re: the above questions. Does S. Heaney read by heart, all or partially?
	How does he read, does he tune his readings to his audience? Does
he sit or stand?
	I am also interested in what might be called the metrics of the
voice, inc ontrast to the metrics of the page -ah! but that might be the
very heart of the matter mightn't it? Do they differ, and how, and is this
not one of the key areas of 20th. century poetry? HAs anyone seen Charles
Berstein reading? How does he read? Does he perform the essays he calls
performances in his book Poetics? HAve either Heaney or Hughes read with
Bernstein or voiced in any essays their views ofthe L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets?
Is there a Irish or British "movement"  like the language poets?
	Last and not least, isn't it sad that Allen Ginsberg had died? We
are doing  a memorial reading of his work on May 14 here in Montreal if
anyone is here at the time, I'd be glad to give more details.

	re: berstein I meant Charles Bernstein.


	SIncely CLifford Duffy
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