Writer's Wardrobes Part 2
I have just been watching a video of a poetry convention. For some reason a woman felt the need to read her poetry wearing Elizabethan clothes/hair and lie on her front on a four poster bed. She was...
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ha ha ha...ah well..she has a little showman in her I guess
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Some poets may say ...let the work speak for itself ..if the words create images, why do you need to distract with artiface? Hey, maybe that poet really wants to be an actress and she's hoping to be...
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Oh dear. Maybe it's an IKEA four poster with easy assemble flat pack pieces. All you need is an allen key and voila! Period detail and drama. Apart from silly dress ups, some readings are so painful...
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I went to a poetry reading where we were to read for 15-20 minutes or something like that - and one poet read, and read, and read, and read, and read - all in a drone...she must have read for 45...
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Oh dear. May I suggest investing in one of those old style vaudeville hooks for such occasions?
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Laughing! I wish. THing is, her poetry was good - maybe breathtaking, but, no one could capture that because she droned on and on and unfortunately had that attitude of "everyone wants to hear all my...
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That's so sad about the droning writer. Some writers really, really shouldn't be allowed to read aloud no matter what.
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I tell you what's just as bad, and I saw this at another reading -- or heard it --- a writer who thinks his/her words are so golden, so perfect, so SO SO whatever, that he/she reads with this highly...
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Heh. I bet that was one of the actorly-poetry voices I so loathe, too.
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Alot of the poets I have seen read their work try to dress like a beatnik....black trousers...black turtlenecks....or they wear the tweed jackets...trying to make themselves appear ingenious...and...
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Somerled wrote: ....preferably an offensive t-shirt.... I like it.
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I find all that nonsense revolting. It's a small mercy that SF writers can't travel by spaceship to readings and signings. I never could understand Ann Rice showing up in a coffin inside a hearse....
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That's funny....I like to wear bright colours at funerals...and wakes....and dark colours every other time.... But yeah I have seen anne rice do that...and she would dress up like a fortune telling...
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davidthomaslord wrote: I never could understand Ann Rice showing up in a coffin inside a hearse. When she eventually passes away people seeing the hearse might wonder "Is she really dead or is she...
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