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As Adrian Mitchell once remarked, "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
It's still a great line and it appears as the epigraph to Tony Walsh's Sex & Love & Rock&Roll (Burning Eye, £10). Walsh has been performing for a decade now - he was recently poet in residence at the Glastonbury festival - but this is his first collection.
Bristol-based Burning Eye Books, whose mission is to promote "poetry for people who don't like poetry," are committed to proving that performance poetry can work on the page as well as the stage.
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