The Performance Side of Being a Poet

In british poetry, there's always been this sort of divide between people who come up through what's called the page traditions. And so you have to learn some skills and some aspects of performance. You just cannot rely on publishing a book and it being in bookshops and that's it. Even if you aren'te don't call yourself a performance poet, you have toLearn those things of being able to project... I know how to take people from a to b in a given moment. It can still be deep and serious. But there is tha respect that you have to give the audience by turning up and giving your work the respect it deserves as well when it hits the