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</div><div style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:279.0pt" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480159319555_3678"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480159319555_3679" lang="EN-GB">It’s really good, Chris, to get
these links to your work. When I met you at the 2011 edition of the biennial
E-poetry Festival (Barcelona),
I admired the way your poetry used music in conjunction with the spoken (maybe
even chanted) word. There is of course a great deal going on in these
performances, forcing the reader’s attention into multiple places. You speak (in
a previous post) of deciding *whether an online presentation tends to help or
hinder the kinds of reading that put movement & the senses<br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480159319555_3680">
in the forefront.* And after seeing the new work I can understand how deciding
might sometimes be difficult. In a sense this type of poetry is closer to film
where the staging or mise en scene has to be carefully timed (or not of course
depending on desired effects). Murat has mentioned Benjamin in this or a
similar vein, speaking of translation and transformation. I think this takes us
to metaphor and what occurs watching your performances is that the metaphor
becomes multiple – cognitive – aural – visual simultaneously. Enjoying it in
any case ; )<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1480159319555_3681"> </span>Best wishes, William</span></div>
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