Tag: performance
Spoken word reading the script?
Reading is less cool than reciting from memory. Of course you all know I am in complete denial about my age, but it is weird, recently I have actually started to feel my brain failing to form short-term memories. The short term is about 5 seconds and then it is like fractals dissolving. I saw … Continue reading Spoken word reading the script?
Retro fitting
A blog post to a sequence of events, of interest here are poetry open mics in Oxford, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Southampton, Chipping Norton, and coming up, Coventry soon. Elsewhere further afield, I aspire to Leeds, Southport, Newcastle, somewhere in Scotland (Dundee?), Barrow? But why? I love hearing people speak verse. A heartless (often) artwork setting … Continue reading Retro fitting
Brum Radio Poets
Sunday 27 October 2024, 1000 GMT The monthly Brum Radio Poets are Leah Atherton and me, in conversation with Rick Sanders, aka Willis the Poet. We each read five poems. Listen on Sunday, and there will be a link in the Brum Radio Archive. Here https://www.mixcloud.com/BrumRadio/brum-radio-poets-with-rick-sanders-october-2024-27102024/ Friends! The studio session was energising and fun. I … Continue reading Brum Radio Poets
Project-ing Spoken Folk
Tobias has expanded my horizons a bit further. And this post notes the inception of a project. We can still call it Spoken Folk. So, carry on. Music enhances voice and words enhance music; together they help sustain and enhance life. This is the hypothesis, the big theme. There are two aims and an emerging … Continue reading Project-ing Spoken Folk
Spoken Folk
An evolving post of signposts to a process, a performance and then an archive of texts and recordings.
Poetry in the sauna
The time I recited one of my poems to a Premier League player in the sauna of a local gym
FloPk Open Mic 19 Feb ’23
I had an opportunity to read four poems this afternoon. Alan, who hosted and featured in one of the acts playing Hendrix tunes with his son on drums, said there had been 13 acts. I was the only spoken word.
Back at the Catweazle Club 09 Feb 2023 – the beat rolls on
Catweazle is important to my development as a poet.
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