| Set List | Poetry Recitations:
'Black Coffee',
'Stacked Plates',
'The Girl from Ipanema',
'My Sweet Angel',
Un-named poem,
'Sunset' |
| Performance Notes | Performance poet Toby Thompson will deliver an exclusive session from the garden of his aunt Jackie's cottage in Normandy, France as part of the Royal Albert Home series. In these strange times, closing the Hall's doors is the best way to look after the world, but we are now opening a (virtual) window for you to experience some of the most talented artists around.
Toby Thompson:
"The pigeons were cooing, the woodpecker was pecking, Pumpkin the fat ginger cat was flopping about on his back in the sun. I had been here at my auntie Jacquie's Normandy residence for two out of a planned three weeks' writing. The absence of commitments, the proximity to the sea, the aliveness of the garden, all these things were conspiring to make introspecting fruitful. I won't say the poems were gushing into being - scarcely ever do they gush - but they were flowing, in their own gentle trickling way. My one slight sadness, as often, was that it couldn't last. The hustle and bustle of city life beckoned me sternly. (enter global pandemic stage left).
5 weeks elapse and still the pigeon love birds coo; the conscientious woodpecker pauses not his pecking; and dear Pumpkin flops more fatly than ever. Come and join me why don't you? I have poems to speak - new ones, old ones - words of love, words of sorrow, words of wonder and bewilderment. It will be my great pleasure to host you for the evening."
World premieres of poems 'Stacked Plates' and 'un-named poem' |
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