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| That magical performance was a dream come true and my love of performing in superb settings, either outdoors or indoors has remained constant. I have vivid memories of leading over 550 children (different each day) in my grand-scale commissioned poem OCTO in Ely Cathedral under the Octagon during their two-day Annual Music Festival 1997. Our massed voices dramatically representing the story of the collapse of the central tower and subsequent building of the Octagon -one of the most daring structural achievements of medieval Europe - combined with the cathedral organ to raise the roof. [Photo 3]. As a result of this success, I was invited in 1998 by Oxford Diocese Education Programme to create a participation poem for the feast day of St Frideswide, Oxford’s patron saint, to perform with schools in her chapel under the Burne-Jones stained glass window vividly depicting her life story, in the Cathedral of Christ Church, Oxford: this event was repeated in 2000. |
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4. FOUNDING OF MY ARCHIVE AND LITTLE PRESS
At international events, we poets exchanged our work: valid currency: thus the PAULA CLAIRE ARCHIVE OF SOUND AND VISUAL POETRY OXFORD (originally ‘The International Concrete Poetry Archive’) cohered, now I believe the largest stockpile of such material public or private in the UK with an estimated 5,000+ items -- I’m still working on the Catalogue. It comprises book/lets of innovative poetry, poem originals, bookworks and artists books by over 200 exponents from 23 countries; plus a rich array of references in anthologies; exhibition catalogues; events leaflets; photographs; recordings; correspondence; and specialist books on the subject. It was formally opened by Mirella Bentivoglio during the Oxford Poetry Festival, 1980 with a talk from her followed by my performance and launching of my Little Press with the first Archive Catalogue. |
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