Down at Harrow, as always, I had a lot of time on my hands when not teaching. The Hill isn't exactly replete with entertainment possibilities - which may well be the understatement of all time. The result was that I watched a few movies on the projector in my classroom, listened to a lot of music and spent quite a bit of time trying to memorise the poems for the set I'm doing tonight at Bilston Voices. Normally I read my work. It's no secret that I have a terrible memory. Tonight though I'll be trying to recite - perform even - my work, instead of just reading it. I will of course be taking printed copies just in case I need them.
For anyone who might be vaguely interested I intend to do a set of poems about museums. Sounds dull, I know, but hopefully it won't be. It won't be for me, anyway.
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Playing Shuttlecocks tonight otherwise I would have been interested.
I really think it's a good idea to learn your words if possible. It gets easier the more you do it (although the clutter that eventually builds up probably pushes more useful stuff out of your brain!) and without the prompt sheet you increase exponentially your chances of engaging an audience. Before you know where you are you'll even find there are suckers out there who'll actually PAY you (me not being one, of course).
Good luck.
David
I presume that an update will be forthcoming but, just in case, how did it go?
Got tanked at shuttlecocks so I might as well have come.
David
It couldn't have gone better. I was astonished at the number of people who came up to me to tell me how much they'd enjoyed it.
A more detailed update will indeed be forthcoming.
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