The Poetry Performances sponsored and organized by the
Cobourg Poetry Workshop, delivered a diversity of eloquence last night at 66
The Meet that was roundly appreciated by Cobourg’s better poems and garden set.
It was a textceptional evening.
Catherine Owen, dressed in darkly demure metal-petal
ambiance, bearing whispers of Goth around her throat, sang and throated and
brought the assembled poetariet into a love poem, into a dark poem, back to
love and life again, heavily accented in medieval and modern (modieval?)
Daniel Tysdal, whom I met for the first time, face2face, and
I looked up to him, a bit; 6’1.5” to his 6’2.5”. A man with a natural alpha
male body bearing bon mot textosterone poetry, interactive, distributing his
voice through several other voices, and ending with a call for poets to deliver
a line … Now that’s texterity.
Grahame Woods, a well-awarded wordie amongst The Local Lot,
launched his first book of poetry; Path Imperfect. Grahame gives good mic with
soft-spoken ease.
Diversity on Display; three genres of eloquence spread over
90 minutes is more than one could normally expect out here in Cobourg. A lot of
books were sold. I will review them in the coming days, beginning first with
Grahame Wood’s book. Cuz he’s local, just like me.
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