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72-518: Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940 – 19 May 2023) was an English performance poet , lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce . Brown formed the bands Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments and Pete Brown & Piblokto! and worked with Graham Bond and Phil Ryan . Brown also wrote film scripts and formed a film production company. Brown was born in Ashtead , Surrey, England. Before his involvement with music, he

144-737: A Dr Barnardo's home , he was educated at the Royal Liberty School in Gidea Park , East London, where he learned music. His first jazz gig was in 1960 with the Goudie Charles Quintet, staying for a year. He first gained national attention as a jazz saxophonist as a member of the Don Rendell Quintet, then briefly joined Alexis Korner 's Blues Incorporated before forming the Graham Bond Quartet with musicians he met in

216-437: A Mellotron . The group was plagued by substance abuse problems, particularly Bond's, as well as the relentless bickering between Baker and Bruce. Due to his declining situation, Bond entrusted running of the band to Baker, who then used that power to fire Bruce, which saw the band continue, albeit with declining success as a trio. Baker would leave soon after to start his own band, with the first invite going to Eric Clapton, at

288-689: A Raft (1970). Mullen, Thompson and Tait left, so Brown and Glover were joined by Phil Ryan on keyboards, John "Pugwash" Weathers on drums (both formerly from The Eyes of Blue) and Brian Breeze on guitar. This line-up only recorded one single, "Flying Hero Sandwich"/"My Last Band". Weathers and Breeze both departed, to be replaced by guitarist Taff Williams (also formerly in The Eyes of Blue) and drummer Ed Spevock, before finally disbanding in Autumn 1971, and Brown went on to work with Graham Bond . Both albums, all three singles and several bonus tracks were reissued on

360-649: A different style emerged that was influenced more by hip hop with much less emphasis on comedy in the manner of Def Poets in the United States. Well-known writers from this evolution include Lemn Sissay and the late Dike Omeje from the Manchester scene and Roger Robinson and El Crisis from the London circuit . On the experimental front, there has been fresh emphasis on collaborative choreographed stage work focused on poetry. ShadoWork , for instance, disrupts and enriches

432-608: A film production company, with Mark A. J. Waters and Miran Hawke. In 2010, Brown published his autobiography, White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns: On the Road With Ginsberg, Writing for Clapton and Cream — An Anarchic Odyssey (JR Books, London), which is in the process of being adapted as a documentary. In 2017, Brown partnered with Gary Brooker writing lyrics for the songs on Procol Harum 's final album, Novum . Brown died of cancer in Hastings , Sussex , on 19 May 2023, at

504-516: A founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s. Bond was an innovator, described as "an important, under-appreciated figure of early British R&B", along with Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner . Jack Bruce , John McLaughlin and Ginger Baker first achieved prominence in his group, the Graham Bond Organisation . Bond was voted Britain's New Jazz Star in 1961. He

576-583: A grassroots level, with performances in pubs and theatres , as well as at literary festivals and arts festivals such as Glastonbury and The Edinburgh Festival Fringe . Slams as well as open mics for more traditional writers remain popular. Media works influenced by radio performance poet Hedwig Gorski have gained ground; there has been some crossover into TV and radio. Many contemporary British performance poets have been influenced by punk poets like John Cooper Clarke and reggae poets like Linton Kwesi Johnson as well as by comedy and hip hop. In 2003

648-446: A harmonium, the original practitioner of this third and most popular type of performance poetry is Hedwig Gorski , who coined the term performance poetry to describe her work with music. She is sometimes called a neo-beat, but considers herself an American " futurist ". Unlike the Beats , Ginsberg and Kerouac, her poems were written for performance with music that was specifically composed for

720-542: A self-titled album and We Put Our Magick on You . He was also re-united with old band members while playing saxophone in Ginger Baker's Air Force and spending a short time in the Jack Bruce Band. Solid Bond , a double-album compiling live tracks recorded in 1963 by the Graham Bond Quartet (Bond, McLaughlin, Bruce and Baker) and a studio session from 1966 by the Graham Bond Organisation (Bond, Heckstall-Smith and Hiseman)

792-528: A show of performance poets that ran on Broadway for almost a year and won a Tony Award . Hispanic performing artists, such as Pedro Pietri , Miguel Algarín , Giannina Braschi , and Guillermo Gómez-Peña , are known for their humorous and politically charged attacks against American imperialism. Later contemporary Latino poets such as Willie Perdomo , Edwin Torres (poet) and Caridad de la Luz would follow in this tradition. Closely tied to Chicano poets

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864-534: A single, "Lost Tribe", and much of the soundtrack to the short experimental documentary film Maltamour , before Bond left to form Magus in 1973. Brown then formed Brown and Friends, and Flying Tigers, though neither group got beyond producing demos. In 1973, he recorded an album of his early poems, The Not Forgotten Association , before recording with members of Back to the Front, including an album, Party in The Rain , which

936-529: A term that would distinguish her text-based vocal performances from performance art , especially the work of performance artists, such as Laurie Anderson , who worked with music at that time. Performance poets relied more on the rhetorical and philosophical expression in their poetics than performance artists, who arose from the visual art genres of painting and sculpture. The Austin Chronicle newspaper, printing Gorski's bi-weekly "Litera" column, first published

1008-583: A thriving scene during the 1980s with a coterie of unique characters such as raúlrsalinas , Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky , Joy Cole, Hedwig Gorski , Roxy Gordon , Ricardo Sánchez and Harryette Mullen , who was nominated for the National Book Award. The Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project, a public arts project, recorded them for radio broadcasts. There were many others, though, and Hedwig Gorski once wrote in "Litera" that some were "eerie",

1080-595: A transitional figure, younger than the aforementioned, and one not especially rooted in the Beats like Gorski who has strong connections to Ginsberg , Corso , Gary Snyder , and others. By the 1990s the general poetry public was less interested in the Beat Poets of the 1950s and 1960s. They were looking for something fresher, newer, hipper, more in touch with the times in which they were living. Performance poets established clubs, cafes, and media as venues that later became stages for

1152-750: A word used by one newspaper reviewer to describe Gorski's vocals on the East of Eden Band track "There's Always Something That Can Make You Happy". Other performing writers in the robust literary scene of the Austin area during that time when performance poetry turned into a school of poetry included Pat Littledog , Eleanor Crockett, Jim Ryan, Chuck Taylor , Greg Gauntner, Albert Huffstickler , W. Joe Hoppe, Andy Clausen, poet and playwright Isabella Russell-Ides ( Getting Dangerously Close To Myself , Slough Press) and David Jewell (poet) ; most recorded on Hedwig Gorski 's audio anthology project. Jewell deserves special mention as

1224-402: Is also being used as a means to promote literacy in public school systems. Global Writes Inc. has been incorporating technology, such as videoconferencing and podcasts, into literacy programs as a means for students to share their poetry. Performance poetry also provides avenues for students to perform their poems onstage. Performance poetry is not solely a postmodern phenomenon. It began with

1296-464: Is generally put down to Bond being "unable to find a commercially successful niche. Some jazz fans regarded Bond's band as too noisy and rock-based, while the pop audience found his music complicated and too jazzy". Heckstall-Smith and Hiseman went on to form Colosseum , recording Bond's song "Walkin' in the Park" for their first album . According to John Steel , in that same period over the 1960s, Bond gave

1368-747: Is now one of the most widespread forms of popular poetry. Chief among the proponents of these new forms of popular poetry were Bob Holman in New York, Marc Smith in Chicago and Alan Kaufman in San Francisco . In the 1990s, the Favorite Poem project of then U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky gave new visibility to ordinary Americans reading and performing their favorite poems. Contemporary performance poets are now experimenting with poetry performances adapted to CD, to video, and to Web audiences. The Beat Poets were

1440-470: Is the Native American poet John Trudell who recorded and crossed over with his poetry and music cassettes . Trudell arose from the persecution on his reservation by FBI agents, who allegedly killed his wife and children. Protest is significant with the minority practitioners of performance poetry, such as def poets and slammers. This adds to the vitality of American performance poetry and connects to

1512-442: Is worth noting that Gorski, who coined the term "Performance Poetry" to describe her poems written only for performance, recordings, and broadcast usually with her musical band East of Eden Band, is the only woman, besides Patti Smith, in this group of late twentieth-century innovators reviving oral poetry . Similar to the ancient bards, touring became a widespread means for performance poets and slammers to distribute their work since

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1584-493: The 1965 event at the Royal Albert Hall . Combining his poetry with music, Brown began performing at live events with musicians including the "New Departures" group with Horovitz, and toured with folk guitarist Davey Graham . The First Real Poetry Band was formed by Brown with John McLaughlin (guitar), Binky McKenzie (bass), Laurie Allan (drums) and Pete Bailey (percussion). The First Real Poetry Band brought Brown to

1656-524: The Beat generation held performance events that married poetry and jazz . In the late 1960s, other poets outside San Francisco and New York City were experimenting with performance pieces. Notable among these was David Franks, at the time a faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art . Franks' work was not poetry recited to a musical counterpoint but literary pieces in which the performance

1728-546: The Jerome Rothenberg model and poems like those of David Antin that are composed during performance. Both these types would generally be considered to constitute performance poetry. Another type based on the Beat method of reading their print poems is poetry with music. The bands with performance poets make spoken vocals an exercise in not singing, but the texts are not categorized as songs. While Ginsberg sang his Blake songs with

1800-467: The Prague -based poetics collective Object:Paradise was established by writers Tyko Say and Jeff Milton with the mission to make " poetry readings more inclusive, inter-disciplinary and less restricted to art cafes and turtlenecks". The collective has since aimed to make poetry readings more similar to language happenings which involve a variety of interdisciplinary acts and performances occurring at

1872-495: The United States were giving poetry readings, largely to small academic gatherings on university campuses. Poetry readings were given national prominence when Robert Frost recited "The Gift Outright" from memory at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy [1] .After that event, spoken word recordings of Frost and other major figures enjoyed increased popularity. By the 1970s, three main forms of poetry performance had emerged. First

1944-489: The double album CD BGOCD522 in 2001. The band's name was taken from the Inuit word for "Arctic Hysteria", Piblokto , with symptoms including hysteria (screaming, uncontrolled wild behaviour), depression and echolalia (senseless repetition of words). After Piblokto!, Brown started to work with Graham Bond , with input from Jack Bruce and Bond's wife, Diane Stewart. In 1972 they recorded one album, Two Heads Are Better Than One ,

2016-403: The 1980s performance poet Hedwig Gorski , whose audio recordings achieved success on spoken word radio programs around the world. Her band, East of Eden Band, produced music and poetry collaborations, allowing cassettes of her live radio broadcast recordings to stay in rotation with popular underground music recordings on some radio stations. Gorski, an art school graduate, tried to come up with

2088-476: The 1990s. The Poetry Slam is a competitive live performance format founded by poet Marc Smith in Chicago, which has become a hotbed for performance poetry. Performance poetry has also been boosted considerably by the appearance of Def Jam —the hip-hop recording company helmed by Russell Simmons —on the scene. def jam has created a television show that showcases performance poets that runs on HBO , as well as

2160-670: The Albert Hall in 1965 at the International Poetry Incarnation . Horovitz, Brown and Mitchell would join Ginsberg and Beat colleagues Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso and other European poets at that landmark London occasion. These developments were also connected to the emergence of the Liverpool Poets , which referred mainly to the poets Roger McGough , Adrian Henri and Brian Patten who fired up audiences across

2232-472: The Arts is now accepting varied presentations for publication verification for poetry fellowship applicants, including audio recordings that have no printed versions of the poems. Performance poetry with music peaked during the 1980s just as performance art peaked in the 1970s. During that time, San Francisco and New York were the centers for this type of activity; however, Austin, Texas (The Third Coast ) also had

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2304-410: The Beats did not use the term "Performance Poetry" to categorize their work with music and audio recordings, the Beats provided an immediate model for the work of Hedwig Gorski . She is a Nova Scotia College of Art and Design art school graduate in 1976. The art school was infamous for starting the careers of numerous 1970s performance artists, such as Vito Acconci , known for photographing his bites. It

2376-533: The Dark and Mantlepiece , with a line-up including Pete Bailey (percussion), Charlie Hart (keyboards), Dick Heckstall-Smith (sax), George Kahn (sax), Roger Potter (bass), Chris Spedding (guitar) and Rob Tait (drums). Brown was asked to leave the band, the day before they were due to support the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park . His vocals were subsequently removed from Mantlepiece and re-recorded by Chris Spedding, and

2448-535: The Korner group, Ginger Baker on drums and Jack Bruce on double bass , together with John McLaughlin on guitar ; and adopting the Hammond organ as his main instrument. The group then became The Graham Bond Organisation (GBO), while John McLaughlin was later replaced by Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophones. Their album There's A Bond Between Us of October 1965 is considered the first recording of rock music that uses

2520-491: The Lost Rake and Coals to Jerusalem . They began touring in 1993, and a compilation of the two albums was issued on CD as The Land That Cream Forgot (Vintage, VIN 8031-2). In the 1990s, Brown also appeared with The Interoceters, performing his earlier material. A new Brown/Ryan album Road of Cobras , including Maggie Bell , Arthur Brown , Mick Taylor and Jim Mullen , was released in 2010. In 2004, he formed Brown Waters,

2592-413: The U. S., the rise to prominence of the language poets with their distrust of speech as a basis for poetry has, broadly speaking, meant that performance poetry went out of fashion with the avant-garde . However, the increasing popularity of open mics, which allow "unknown" poets to take the stage and share their own work in 3- to 5-minute increments and of poetry slams has meant that performance poetry

2664-484: The UK in the 70s and then the likes of John Hegley emerged in the 80s, influenced as much by stand-up comedy as a love for wordplay, creating the template for what became recognised as contemporary British performance poetry - a format still exemplified by the work of acts such as Murray Lachlan Young , Francesca Beard and Gerard McKeown. Apples and Snakes , a collective promoting performance poetry in pubs and at festivals,

2736-537: The age of 82. Performance poetry The phenomenon of performance poetry , a kind of poetry specifically made for and offered during a performance before an audience goes back to Dada , the term itself only emerged later. On June 23, 1916, Hugo Ball performed one of the first sound poems, Gadji beri bimba at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich , dressed in a cardboard costume so that he had to be carried onto

2808-478: The attention of the band Cream . Originally, he was seen as a writing partner for drummer Ginger Baker , but the group quickly discovered that he worked better with bassist Jack Bruce . Of the situation, Bruce later remarked: "Ginger and Pete were at my flat trying to work on a song but it wasn't happening. My wife Janet then got with Ginger and they wrote 'Sweet Wine' while I started working with Pete." Together, Brown and Bruce wrote many of Cream's songs, including

2880-537: The band was renamed The Battered Ornaments. "Piblokto!" was formed after Brown's dismissal from the Battered Ornaments, and was active between 1969 and 1971. The original Piblokto! members were; Brown on vocals, Laurie Allan on drums, Jim Mullen on guitar, Roger Bunn on bass and Dave Thompson on organ. Most of their releases were for Harvest Records . Allan left to join The Battered Ornaments and

2952-599: The capital city, Prague , and surrounding areas. In 2002 the first expat-based performance poetry group Alchemy was established and regularly held open-mic poetry events until 2018. In 2003, the first year of the national slam poetry championship was organized as part of the Olomouc literary festival Poetry without Borders, initiated by poets and writers Jaromír Konečný  [ cs ] and Martin Reiner  [ cs ] and literary theorist Miroslav Balaštík . In 2018

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3024-547: The conventional regimes of author , text and audience by combining (simple) theatrical movement with the full range of voice and stage in ways designed to draw deeper attention to the text. This represents a 'counter-cultural' mode of performance poetry which shuns bald entertainment value. Other initiatives such as Lyrikal Fearta by Jonzi D have shaped street-based art for the stage, extending spoken word to short prose productions and fusing performance poetry with dance. British performance poetry continues to thrive at

3096-455: The early 1960s. His Live New Departures - a touring version of his poetry and arts journal New Departures (launched 1959) - gave space and opportunities to poets like Pete Brown and Adrian Mitchell who combined performed verse with the backing of jazz musicians like pianist Stan Tracey and saxophonist Bobby Wellins . However, the emergence of performed poetry as a popular art form can probably be linked to Allen Ginsberg's performance at

3168-457: The emerging slam poetry scene. Unlike Gorski, who with East of Eden Band, began broadcasting live performance poetry on radio and distributing the recordings of these broadcasts in place of publishing in print, Jewell and slam poets were more interested in small live audiences. Venues like Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City and mass media formats, like Gorski's and John Giorno 's, form

3240-513: The first UK conference of performance poetry, organised by Lucy English, was held at Bath Spa University . Speakers included performing poets from the United States Bob Holman and Charles Bernstein . Bath Spa university runs a performance poetry module as part of its Creative Writing programme. Graham Bond Graham John Clifton Bond (28 October 1937 – 8 May 1974) was an English rock/blues musician and vocalist, considered

3312-423: The first to popularize crossing over into recorded media to distribute their performed poetry. The best-known Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg , followed the lead of fellow Beat, Jack Kerouac , in reciting his work for audio recording. Ginsberg always used music with his readings and often accompanied himself on the harmonium . Ginsberg put William Blake 's poems to music and performed them with the harmonium. Even though

3384-399: The hits " I Feel Free ", " White Room " and " SWLABR "; Brown, Bruce and Clapton also wrote " Sunshine of Your Love ". After the break-up of Cream, Bruce and Brown continued to write songs together. Brown wrote the lyrics for most of Bruce's solo albums. Brown formed Pete Brown and His Battered Ornaments in 1968, and in 1969 the band recorded two albums: A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in

3456-401: The performance of oral poems in pre-literate societies. By definition, these poems were transmitted orally from performer to performer and were constructed using devices such as repetition, alliteration , rhyme and kennings to facilitate memorization and recall. The performer "composed" the poem from memory, using the version they had learned as a kind of mental template. This process allowed

3528-551: The performance of poetry was restricted to reading aloud from printed books within families or groups of friends. The early years of the 20th century saw a general questioning of artistic forms and conventions. Poets like Basil Bunting and Louis Zukofsky called for a renewed emphasis on poetry as sound. Bunting in particular argued that the poem on the page was like a musical score; not fully intelligible until manifested through sound. This attitude to poetry helped to encourage an environment in which poetry readings were fostered. This

3600-427: The performer to add their own flavor to the poem in question, although fidelity to the traditional versions of the poems was generally favored. Although popular works, including popular poems or collections of poems, were already being distributed for private reading and study in manuscript form, there can be little doubt that the introduction of cheap printing technologies accelerated this trend considerably. The result

3672-555: The poems. Her spoken vocals have come as close to singing as possible without really singing. That is the key to Gorski's performance poetry: the marriage of poetry to music written specifically to fit poems written for vocal performance. The other type of performance poetry Gorski practiced is without music and tied to conceptual art , but that was at appearances in smaller venues that could not accommodate her band. Unlike Antin and Cormin, Gorski never improvised text but wrote poetry only for performance while eschewing printed poetry. In

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3744-751: The rock band The Animals their name before they hit fame after seeing them perform at the Club a’Gogo in Newcastle. After the break-up of the Organisation, Bond continued to exhibit mental disorders, with manic episodes and periods of intense depression , exacerbated by heavy drug use. Moving to America, he recorded two albums and performed session work for Harvey Mandel and Dr. John among others, but he returned to England in 1969. He then formed Graham Bond Initiation with his new wife Diane Stewart, who shared his interest in magick , and in 1970 Holy Magick, which recorded

3816-531: The same time. The collective outlined twenty mantras in their manifesto to make performance poetry more of a singular happening. In the United Kingdom, many avant-garde poets are deeply committed to live exposition of work, moving on from Cobbing and his peers. Well-known names include cris cheek and Aaron Williamson . The work of UK poet Michael Horovitz helped to spread this tradition in Britain during

3888-554: The social protest of Beat poets like Allen Ginsberg . In France , fr:Lucien Suel , Akenaton , and many other represents the way of performance poetry. Setsuko Chiba  [ ja ] is a Japanese poet and artist who takes the theatrical way of performance poetry since her debut in East Village in New York. In the Czech Republic performance poetry has also become popular among both Czech speakers and expats living in

3960-468: The stage. The actual birthplace of performance poetry is therefore Zürich. Since then the spectrum ranges from Kurt Schwitters’ own recitation of his wellknown Ursonate to the recitations of "otto's pug " by German poet Ernst Jandl and a typ of performance that is mixed from impromptu speech, body language and theatricality such as Natias Neutert’s Diogenes Synopsis’’. The term performance poetry originates from an early press release describing

4032-428: The term "performance poetry" to describe the work of Gorski with composer D'Jalma Garnier III as early as 1982. She began using the term, however, to describe a 1978 "neo-verse drama" and "conceptual spoken poetry for five voices" titled Booby, Mama! that employs the cut-up method made popular by William Burroughs and conceptual art methods. The National Endowment for the Arts categorized performance art within

4104-456: The time guitarist with the UK's premier blues band, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers . Clapton accepted with the caveat that Jack Bruce be added as vocalist and bassist. Meanwhile, the Organisation carried on as a trio with Jon Hiseman on drums, but Bond's mental and physical health continued to deteriorate, until the band eventually dissolved in 1967. The group's lack of commercial success

4176-417: The two lines of influence leading to Def Poetry on HBO . Performing poets-writers and especially performance poets excelled in the ability to put the event of oral literature into the primary social/communicative function for literature. The plurality of the literary performance is under the control of the poet/writer, and the performer never minimizes the participation of the audience members. Performance

4248-674: The visual arts judging panels; it originally placed performance poetry within the category of theater before correcting it to literature in the 21st century. Since many performance poets did not have publications, the former classification made performance poets categorically ineligible for the NEA fellowship funding or recognition. Their audio cassettes were not acceptable sample material for literature grant consideration. A stated objection to this presentation method protested their performance poems translated into text on paper could not compete with poetry written for print publication. The National Endowment for

4320-460: The years of lack of commercial success and the recent demise of Magus had badly hurt his pride. Throughout his career he had been hampered by severe bouts of drug addiction , and spent January 1973 in hospital after a nervous breakdown . According to Harry Shapiro , in his biography The Mighty Shadow , Bond was considered as a possible replacement for Patrick Moraz in Refugee . On 8 May 1974, Bond

4392-473: Was a change in the poet's role in society. From having been an entertainer, the poet became primarily a provider of written texts for private readings. The public performance of poetry became generally restricted, at least in a European context, to the staging of plays in verse and occasionally, for example in the cases of the Elizabethan madrigalists or Robert Burns , as texts for singing. Apart from this,

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4464-582: Was a necessary and integral part of the work itself. In Britain , sound poets like Bob Cobbing and Edwin Morgan were exploring the possibilities of live performance. Cobbing's groups Bird Yak and Konkrete Canticle involved collaborative performance with other poets and musicians and were partly responsible for drawing a number of the poets of the British Poetry Revival into the performance arena. Meanwhile, many more mainstream poets in both Britain and

4536-517: Was a poet, having his first poem published in the U.S. magazine Evergreen Review when he was 14 years old. Brown became part of the poetry scene in Liverpool during the 1960s, and in 1964 was the first poet to perform at Morden Tower in Newcastle . He became a significant advocate of British Beat Poetry , and in partnership with Michael Horovitz wrote poetry which they recited together as part of

4608-571: Was an early user of the Hammond organ / Leslie speaker combination in British rhythm and blues – he "split" the Hammond for portability – and was the first rock artist to record using a Mellotron . As such he was a major influence upon later rock keyboardists: Deep Purple 's Jon Lord said "He taught me, hands on, most of what I know about the Hammond organ". Bond was born in Romford , Essex . Adopted from

4680-475: Was recorded in 1976 but not released until 1982. On the rise of punk, he left the music scene in 1977 and wrote film scripts, including that for Felix the Cat: The Movie . He then wrote a film score for a BBC TV film, with Phil Ryan, who had been in a late Piblokto! line-up. They collaborated for 12 years, and Brown formed his own label, Interoceter, which issued two Pete Brown/Phil Ryan albums: Ardours of

4752-471: Was reinforced by Charles Olson 's call for a poetic line based primarily on spoken human breath. Clive Sansom devoted much of his life to gathering and contributing poetry and drama particularly suited to performance by children. During the 1950s, the American poet Cid Corman began to experiment with what he called oral poetry. This involved spontaneously composing poems into a tape recorder. Allen Ginsberg

4824-758: Was released that same year. In 1972 he teamed up with Pete Brown to record Two Heads are Better Than One . He also recorded an album with the John Dummer Band in 1973, although this was not released until 2008. After the near-simultaneous collapse of his band and his marriage, Bond then formed Magus with British folk-singer Carolanne Pegg and bassist Pete Macbeth, which disbanded around Christmas 1973 without recording. During that same period, he discovered American singer-songwriter-guitarist Mick Lee, and they played together live but never recorded. Plans to include Chris Wood of Traffic never materialized due to Bond's death. Bond's financial affairs were in chaos, and

4896-577: Was replaced by their drummer Rob Tait. They released their first single "Living Life Backwards" / "High Flying Electric Bird" (the A-side later covered by Jeff Beck ), followed by the album Things May Come and Things May Go but the Art School Dance Goes on Forever (1970). Bunn was replaced by Steve Glover for their second single, "Can't Get Off The Planet" / "Broken Magic" and the LP Thousands on

4968-524: Was started by Mandy Williams, PR Murry and Jane Addison in London in 1982 inspired by the work of New Variety/CAST. They worked with 'ranting poets' such as Attila the Stockbroker and Seething Wells and other poets and musicians with a political message such as Billy Bragg . Apples and Snakes continues today, 31 years later, as a national organisation. In the 90s, however, in big cities like Manchester and London,

5040-478: Was the poetry reading, at which poems that had been written for the page were read to an audience, usually by the author. Poetry readings have become widespread and poetry festivals and reading series are now part of the cultural landscape of most Western societies. However, most people would not consider the poetry readings of this type as part of the performance poetry phenomena. This leaves two types of poetry performance: poems written specifically for performance on

5112-419: Was the primary distribution method for poetics since tribal times and ancient Greece . As Gorski often states, broadcast and technology surpass books in reaching mass audiences for poetry, and just as writing poetry for print made poetry a completely different artform since the invention of the book , audio "mediums influence the way poets write just as they do painters and sculptors". Today, performance poetry

5184-453: Was to take up this practice in the 1960s. David Antin , who heard some of Corman's tapes, took the process one step further. He composed his talk-poems by improvising in front of an audience. These performances were recorded and the tapes were later transcribed to be published in book form. Around the same time, Jerome Rothenberg was drawing on his ethnopoetic researches to create poems for ritual performances as happenings . The writers of

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