Reading at Birckbeck

August 17, 2004

Stephen Mooney recently sent me a CD of my reading at Birckbeck College this past May. Because it was my first reading ever in London, I pretty much did the entertaining stuff, a few pages from "The Screens," a handful of Roger Pellett poems in faux-English accent, and a crowd-favorite "Maxwell Howard Chickering," the first poem (after the Pellett sequence) in Angry Penguins. I haven't listened to all of these tracks myself since I hate the sound of my voice, but I think the recordings are pretty good because you get some audience chuckles in there -- it doesn't have that Cone of Silence feel you often get with poetry readings taped right from the speaker's microphone.

01_introduction.mp3
02_maxwell_howard_chickering.mp3
03_intro_to_screens.mp3
04_uh_um.mp3
05_roger_pellett_bio.mp3
06_pellett_plausible_implausible.mp3
07_pellett_creeley_i_know_a_man.mp3
08_pellett_creeley_the_warning.mp3
09_intro_to_axis_thinking.mp3
10_axis_thinking_2.mp3

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