Robin, thanks for the invite to apply for the invitation to the show.
Speaking personally, as one does at the end of the day, I'm a
plumb sucker for anything even remotely containing the modern
notion of The Nation, let alone a subject line containing 'griff'.
Let's hope it's funny. Many poets don't realise how funny their
work can be until they see the funny side of it. Sometimes the
comic is deftly present in the intonation, sometimes in the sense
of dress, sometimes the meeting points between those factors and the
venue and audience present. No doubt the beeb will pay due hommage
to such details. I'm sorry I can't attend myself, but I've been barred from
Shepherd's Bush ever since attempting to leave a genital imprint (a la
Hollywood star hands) in the brickwork by the entrance a couple of months
back.
There was nothing remotely funny about that I can tell you.
Harrowing as flightings go (although it fixated me onto questions of the
dispersal locations of the rest of the body). I should have known better.
love and love
cris
ps - was it Barthes who compered the French series of 'Whose Line Is It
Anyway?'
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