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In today's creative milieu where everyone seems to be a writer-designer-producer on the make, you'd have thought that you might know more people who professed to be poets. |
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Part Two of The Triumph of Painting @Saatchi is opened. 10am-8pm. County Hall SE1 £9. 0870 154 4040 or here. |
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Experience radical moralist Peter Singer talking genes @ the ICA. 6:45pm. The Mall, SW1. £8. 020 7930 3647. |
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| Sax legend Maceo Parker is playing at Jazz Café tonight. 7:30pm. 5 Parkway, NW1. £25. 0870 264 3333 or here. | ||||
But poetry has always had image problems; partly because, while everyone has written it, those who actually own up to writing it are either woosies still hung up on playground crushes, or wannabees, who should really leave their pens alone. That's why so many lyricists choose to learn to play an instrument: singer/songwriters get laid. But all that looks set to change thanks to a poetry mag called Full Moon Empty Sportsbag. Taking its name from cottaging parlance; whereby a horny suitor takes
an empty sports bag into a toilet stall for his prospective mate to
discretely stand in (only one set of feet...), Full Moon Empty Sportsbag
has become better known as the outlet for the elegiac laments of its
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Rule breaking Billy Jenkins jams over lunch at Jazz Plus in Victoria Embankment Gdn 12:30-2pm. Villiers St, WC2. |
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Montreal rockers The Dears perrform at Astoria. 7pm. 157 Charing Cross Rd, WC2 £15. 0870 060 3777 or here. |
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The Hallé plays at St Paul's EC4 led by Elder. 8pm. £10-35. 0845 120 7502 or online. |
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So now that poetry has the supermodel seal of approval it's likely that we'll be seeing a few more people adding "bedroom bard" to their list of creative hyphenates. Full Moon Empty Sportsbag |
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Lo-fi sounds at Barfly from falsetto-voiced Baxter Dury. 7pm. Chalk Farm Rd, NW1. £6. 0870 264 3333 or online. |
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Award-winning artist Rirkrit Tiravanija opens another of his participation installations at Serpentine. 10am-6pm. Kensington Gdns, W2. Free. |
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