Les Barker was beamed live to our living room on Friday, courtesy of Live to Your Living Room: a Zoom session is not a live concert, but it's as close as we're going to get just now - and you don't have to go out in the cold, and, as ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler points out, the wine is better.
Les Barker, for those who haven't met him, reads his own poems, which are funny, and somewhere on the line between surreal and silly - though I was surprised at some hard-edged topical material, too: did he always do this, and I'd just forgotten? Anyway, I'm not going to talk about humour, but here are a few davourites, starting with Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife-Thrower:
Detritus was new to me:
For reference, two that weren't on Friday's programme: Guide Cats for the Blind with a video of many, many cat pictures, and a lovely reading of The Shipping Forecast (source of my header line, of course):
durham_rambler points out, the wine is better.Les Barker, for those who haven't met him, reads his own poems, which are funny, and somewhere on the line between surreal and silly - though I was surprised at some hard-edged topical material, too: did he always do this, and I'd just forgotten? Anyway, I'm not going to talk about humour, but here are a few davourites, starting with Cosmo the Fairly Accurate Knife-Thrower:
Detritus was new to me:
Do not walk behind me for I may not lead
Do not walk in front for I may not follow
Go over there somewhere
For reference, two that weren't on Friday's programme: Guide Cats for the Blind with a video of many, many cat pictures, and a lovely reading of The Shipping Forecast (source of my header line, of course):
