Month: June 2011
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Four Possible Futures For Performance Poetry
This week I was asked by someone writing for a Uni newspaper to write a bit about performance and slam poetry and about how I “saw the the future for performance poetry in Britain”. I realised that my view of it’s future had shifted quite a lot since the change of government and shake up…
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Where’s My Theatre Invitation?
Mostly I’ve been a radio journalist, then a poet. I don’t know much about theatre apart from that I don’t like sitting watching actors pretending to be other people and ignoring the audience. That just feels like a dysfunctional family to me. Or some sadistic kids in the playground saying you can watch their game…
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The Feeling Of Bettakultcha-a review
Event MC Ivor Tymchak (@ivortymchak) pondered aloud why so many people were at the Leeds #Bettakultcha event, when a night of slide show presentations sounded more offputting than a comedy club with it’s simple aim of provoking laughter. What feelings did Bettakultcha provoke in people? he wondered, perhaps we could let him know. Obediently, I…
Kate Fox. Writer, Broadcaster and Performer: Where There's Muck, There's Bras. 