Heslop Last night I attended a great Poetry London reading, but for me as an organizer the after-reading bar scene was even more productive. We decided London Open Mic's interviewer Kevin Heslop should interview Tom Cull about London's first literary festival, called WORD, scheduled for Oct. 24 to 26, which Cull helped organize. There are so many aspects to the festival that it's a little confusing and really could use the single voice of an effusive spokesman like Cull to bring it all together. The interview will take place and be posted soon.
And then Kevin and I sat up at his place till 3:30 in the morning talking poetry. At one point we were mulling over some of the great leaders of cultural change of the last few generations, their similarities, Presley, Dylan, and earlier Ginzberg and Kerouac. And during lulls, Heslop would recite from memory great swathes of Ginzberg's Howl, and Kerouac's October in the Railroad Earth, sounding so much like Kerouac himself it gave me chills.
Of all the greatest readers of their own poetry in modern history, Kerouac has got to have been one of the best. See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjPZpaXNsw
And then Kevin and I sat up at his place till 3:30 in the morning talking poetry. At one point we were mulling over some of the great leaders of cultural change of the last few generations, their similarities, Presley, Dylan, and earlier Ginzberg and Kerouac. And during lulls, Heslop would recite from memory great swathes of Ginzberg's Howl, and Kerouac's October in the Railroad Earth, sounding so much like Kerouac himself it gave me chills.
Of all the greatest readers of their own poetry in modern history, Kerouac has got to have been one of the best. See for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hjPZpaXNsw
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