I have just been watching a video of a poetry convention. For some reason a woman felt the need to read her poetry wearing Elizabethan clothes/hair and lie on
her front on a four poster bed.
She was speaking in a very
mannered/'Victorian' way. There seems to be a tendency for some poets at these conventions to wear brightly coloured outfits like some kind of
Victorian showman or some kind of medieval medicine man/woman or magician. Yet all the established/professional poets are wearing normal everyday clothes and
look very much like they belong to the present.
My question is how does this woman transport her four poster bed to her poetry readings? It would not fit in the back of a van and it would take several people to lift it or assemble it. Perhaps one of those trucks that car enthusiasts use to transport their classic cars?
"The bed's arrived".
She was speaking in a very
mannered/'Victorian' way. There seems to be a tendency for some poets at these conventions to wear brightly coloured outfits like some kind of
Victorian showman or some kind of medieval medicine man/woman or magician. Yet all the established/professional poets are wearing normal everyday clothes and
look very much like they belong to the present.
My question is how does this woman transport her four poster bed to her poetry readings? It would not fit in the back of a van and it would take several people to lift it or assemble it. Perhaps one of those trucks that car enthusiasts use to transport their classic cars?
"The bed's arrived".
