Coloured Drawing of Red-Haired Girl

Sitting in a carriage with my notepads I viewed the drawings of the girl I’d sketched since I’d been in the university town. In a speech balloon above a likeness of her I wrote – YES, IT IS ME IN THOSE DREAMS WE HAVE TOGETHER.

from Madeline My Love In Death And Fancy (Michael J. Weller, Visual Associations, 2001)

Scored Piece for Helen, Olly, & Martin the Sound Man of Answer Me This!

— We are poets, man. We are fucking poets.

— No we are not. I will not be described as a poet. It’s an artform I do not enjoy —

— Why? —

— performance poetry, I’m sorry, it always makes me want to claw my own face off.

Note on portable profession of performance poetry …

Mike Weller’s scored banter between Oliver Mann and Helen Zaltzman on topic of poetry featured in "take two" Episode 63 (performed twice as Martin the Sound Man forgot to turn his track on) of their podcast Answer Me This!

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