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Boyd
had been arranging poetry readings - Pete
Brown, Libby Houston,
Frances Horovitz
and Michael Horovitz
among the guests - at "The
Chameleon Café" and" The
Magazine" (pub) in Leicester. Robin
Midgely agreed to him arranging an evening
reading at "The Phoenix
Theatre". It was a success. Sold
out.
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The
Phoenix Theatre - Leicester
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The
"Leicester
Mercury" published a full
page article “Bringing
Poetry To Leicester" (Jon Ford),
with photograph, shortly after (Dec.1968).
Next day when Boyd arrived at work, the
page was posted all over the factory.
Very moving.
He wrote ‘The Aesthetic Death of Samuel
Smee’ for them . . .
The poetry readings were moved to The
Town Arms. Readings/happenings on local
buses, in factories, schools and the liason
with The Phoenix continued until 1972. |
The
New Town Arms
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The
Dissolving Cuckoo. Boyd K. Lichfield.
Transican Books, 1969 |
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Limited edition of 120 copies, handset and printed
on purple handmade paper by Barcham Green. Dark
purple, handmade Japanese paper wrap. Cover,
yellow card. Hand sewn binding (Transican Books
- Leicester, 1969).
The Dissolving Cuckoo Recording, February 1969
The Aesthetic Death of Samuel
Smee
Click
on poem to enlarge
The
Aesthetic Death of Samuel Smee.mp3
(click title to play)
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