CODE GALA’s grand poetry reading was emceed by Michele Leggott. Poets, John Adams, Wystan Curnow, Makyla Curtis, Murray Edmond, Ya-Wen Ho, and Ruby Porter all responded with their own words to Kelly’s poetry. Below are some of their contributions.
John Adams, ‘Phlox’
–read by Ya-Wen Ho with a suggested approach from WC to wait silently for a approx. a minute before reading (which Ya-Wen did so well) and continue to pause for a period between reading each piece.
Makyla Curtis, ‘Codes of Ode’
Makyla Curtis’ sound work ‘On a Tantric Poem: after Malone’. This is a reworking that refers to her and Kelly Malone’s reading of Malone’s ‘tantra’ – a recording made for the Nee Miss show.
Murray Edmond
THIS DOOR IS ALARMED
and so is Salvador Dali
look at his moustache
it’s like the Cote d’Azur
the way it shimmies
that’s what terror looks
like putting on a brave face
when stopped in its negligee
before the turning handle
who will come through
that’s a fair question
but asked too late
as Gothic style insists
even John Keats could not
resist the sound of hinges
the footstep on the stair
the net that falls
graffiti that the concierge
scrawled in mute despair
the virgin painter and his bride
who shakes her raven hair
-Murray Edmond
Ruby Porter, ‘A Simple Method to Control Bleeding’
A Simple Method to Control Bleeding
All photos courtesy of Dennis Thorpe, except for ‘Makyla Curtis’, courtesy of William Hackett, taken at Code Gala
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