"Tonight at Noon" by Adrian Henri (poetry reading)

[samuelpeix]

Is there any relation between this poem and the charles mingus' song? If so, what was first?

[amhainn]

There is a mistake, in fact. The original (remember that the poem was written before the pound's decimalisation) read "Supermarkets will advertise 3d extra on everything". No one in 1967 would have said "3p".

[SpokenVerse]

@amhainn True enough but we never said 3d either, we said threepence pronoucing it thrupence. 

[amhainn]

@SpokenVerse Yes, of course. It is rather odd that neither who transcribed the text nor who reads it (assuming it is not the same person) have noticed. Besides, saying "3p" makes you think of a negligible difference as it's today's money, while "3d" would put it in the right context as a noticeable sum.

[SpokenVerse]

@amhainn I copied and read it but I assumed that the text was correct. If you use Google to search for the line you will see that 3p gets 422 hits and 3d only 52.

[amhainn]

@SpokenVerse But I have the book :)

[dabesser]

NOT Adrian Henri.

Who is responsible?

[BigBruinekool]

This one's going into my favorites. I'd never heard of Adrian Henri before. Thank you for bringing him to my attention. I love the pause on the last line before "at noon" and how your voice cracked slightly. It brought out the emotion that Henri himself put into the piece.

[thegreatgroucho]

I grew up with The Liverpool Scene, and Adrian Henri in particular. Many thanks.

[littlemissirishful]

wonderful, I like "Love is" by Adrian Henri as well :)

[jteeeeeton]

Never heard that before. Must say I enjoyed it! Such a good reading. I remember Brian Patten praising Adrian Henry a year or so after we left school but I had just immersed myself in country music and then I joined the Army and lost touch with all of the Liverpool scene. I'm probably catching up in retrospect! Jim eaton

[natalita0714]

Inimaginable ending...

[bluekidmasi]

Unbelievably touching.

[donpearson61]

The only poetry reading I have attended (at the suggestion of my new girlfriend, later my wife) was the see the Liverpool Scene in early 1968 and it is Adrian Henri whom I remember as impressive. Interesting to note that modern transcriptions have replaced the pre-decimalization "3d" with "3p"

[marcolopolis55]

What year was this written in?

[SpokenVerse]

It was first printed in a collection of The Liverpool poets, called The Mersey Sound in 1967.

[jhvscs]

wonderful poem and the reading of the last line was particular moving.