MICHAEL HOROVITZ READS AT THE 'CRUCIBLE', SHEFFIELD

PREQUEL TO HOROVITZ

AT THE CRUCIBLE 15/09/1979

and then
moog reverb
caroming benches/
beams/bricks/booms/books
crucible of sound,
conveyor belt poets scatter
amid shredded vowels/sensibilities,
beards aquiver/sound spangled
with academic musings
on reams of punctuated poesy,
girls moon-eyed long poetic
dreamings in folds of hair
drift through/ attention cut
slithers in tides/
dance disjointed
‘WHAT IS THIS ?!?!’
Alaskan totem poets
squat corners talk/talk
horror-trips
whoring-wits
tonite/tonight
albion’s children
dancing tongue impaled
with visions of Blake
with vipers of allusion/
trailing tarantula’s of t/reason,
discord reverb rebounds
re- sounds remade remodelled
in skeleton jangle cluster
sound sculptured New Departures
dem poems dem poems gonna
dance around your ears,
Jazz banjo-players with piles
and the shade of Prince Buster
gawp at polystyrene cup
vomit/ejaculates coffee
crushed beneath weight of
POETS COME ALIVE
discarding white page preoccupations/
monochrome typewriter restrictions/
single-cell biological onenesses/
and dancing bone-naked
in Sheffield
in 1979
insane
…



Published in:
‘BOGG no.44’ (USA – May 1980)