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Fun. Poignant. Thanks EZB and Wheeler Center.
Lee
06 October at 01:39AM
Any failure to take in the new signals certain death.
Dennis Garvey
06 October at 02:25PM
Congratulations EZB. I am so pleased that this was filmed as I sadly could not attend in person. A brilliant, amusing, literate, poignant speech that honours all of us performance poets. Thank you. Bless you! Carry on! Can't wait to see more EZB on POET TV. xo ;)
06 October at 05:32PM
Congratulations EZB. I am so pleased that this was filmed as I sadly could not attend in person. A brilliant, amusing, literate, poignant speech that honours all of us performance poets. Thank you. Bless you! Carry on! Can't wait to see more EZB on POET TV. xo ;)
Woops...sorry for the repetition, but I forgot to sign this... Cheers, Andrea
Andrea Louise Thomas
06 October at 05:34PM
What everyone else said. I wouldn't ever call myself a fan of slam poetry but I thought this was a great, well argued, compelling Lunchbox/Soapbox.
Funnily enough, Mr Bantick was one of my English teachers. I don't remember him having such diverse interests as writing for The Australian. In any case, if it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't say he was a great influence or anything. I'd kind of forgotten who he was until I looked him up after the session.
Jon
06 October at 11:07PM
Hell yeah! That was really, really good.
Edwards
07 October at 01:31PM
Howlllll!! - woot, your passion for poetry is beyond words. this could be like a pokemon battle ... would be great to see how Bantick responds...has someone sent him the link?
Ian
09 October at 11:46PM
That was so amazingly well said
tina
11 October at 12:23PM
Yes, Bantick and fellow poetry snobs deserve everything EZB serves them up here (especially given his unmistakeably sneering personal putdowns). Note that Bantick isn't a snob because he likes traditional forms of poetry, but because he insists that no other forms have any merit whatever. Don't send him the link, Ian --he'll choke on his chalk dust.
maikiki
11 October at 03:40PM
Following Chris Bantick's lead on Eliot reading his own work and its popularity as an Apple app, I checked out Eliot reading "Prufrock" on Youtube. Some "Slam" skills would have enlivened the dreariness of his reading, for sure.
Dennis Garvey
13 October at 05:15PM
What an amazing speech. As a primary school teacher this sounds exactly what we could do to enliven and invigorate poetry reading. To encourage students to have a voice, a way to share their ideas and experiences and validate them. Having just taught a unit on Australian Bush Poetry I wish I had seen this first and we could of had a poetry slam of our own, it would have been much more interesting for me and the students. It would have illustrated the point I was trying to make to them that poets we were studying (Lawson, Patterson, McKelallar) were passionate about their country, were communicating with the masses and that their poems served as entertainment in a world without tv or radio and performance was a big part of that.
Vanessa Simpson
16 October at 10:46AM
I too am passionate and am communicating with the masses. In Towradgi that means one mouse, 10 cockroaches, two bicyclists and a syrfee.. I have told them about slam and poetry and et al.
16 October at 05:43PM
check out the full transcript on her blog here, funny!
http://atomicladybomb.wordpress.com/
Edwards
24 October at 09:25PM
go girrrrll...ride on....
Candy
26 October at 05:54PM