AUDIO POETRY....
Testing. One...two...three.... Recently I was invited to send some of my 'audio poems' to Lipservice Journal - Maurice has included my work in his online journals for the past few years, and now he has branched out into the spoken word. My first thought was great. Very quickly followed by - I have no audio poetry...how do I do that? So after quite a few hours playing around with my computer I found how to record my voice. In some ways that was the easy part...choosing what to read was one of the hard decisions. There a few that I recite that I consider spoken word rather than serious, on the page poetry. These are what I considered. But then a few 'on the page' poems had great imagery, and I thought perhaps they could work as well. It took longer to build a collection of poems to choose to read than I had considered. Day one gone. The next spare day I began to record some of the said poems. I learnt a lot. Heavy rain on the roof makes for an interesting ef...