bunting concrete at lit and phil

Thanks to Newcastle poetry collective, Monkfish, and some audience members. This is a setting of my concrete poem using a line from Basil Bunting's Briggflatts, see p2 of

http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poems/lightman_1.htm.pdf

The performance begins with my poem from Trancelated, at www.ubu.com, performed with Robbie from Monkfish.

I am singing the down parts of my concrete poem, which is written like a crossword / wordsearch across and down.

Claire of Monkfish is reciting some of the root meanings of the names of the presidential portraits throughout the performance room, the lecture theatre of the Mining Institute.

Bunting knew and frequented these buildings.

Ira Lightman 2009

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[thewordfestival]

Great stuff!

[AladdinHero]

Very Nice xD.