Rob Ayling writes:
"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)
VOICE!
Began when hearing Samuel Taylor Coleridge
reciting"BREAK!BREAK!
BREAK!"on a wax cylinder
tinny
and remote in thin time's corridor.Then Dylan Thomas on LP
UNDER
MILK WOOD(better performed via Richard Burton's version
and BBC poets on
radio.ABC poets ditto.Then movies of poets(Canadian Film Board)
reciting
their word works to posthumous audiences.
Then
hearing a cassette of Sylvia Plath-bright bell shining voice!
Given
a double LP of International Poets/Dutch Poets (in English)
Hearing the sound
of Russian poet Yevtushenko LIVE in performance
seeing
how he made words dance-DA! and NYET!
Small
thimble soundcloud of Virginia Woolf
transcribed
from a BBC tape-thin as a tapeworm
when
all she was saying is"words belong to each other"
And
they do.So they are.Married to symbol and sound
Far
better to hear each one while they are alive
than
to suffer the historical error of believing
words
on paper are all Shakespeare had to offer...
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