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Ainsley Burrows
27 Oct, Student's Union
*****
Ask someone if they like poetry and what comes to mind is unlikely
to be Ainsley Burrows. But, in a room high up in the Union on a rainy
Wednesday afternoon, I discovered that Ainsley is a man who can make us
question many traditional assumptions about verse.
The 25-year-old New Yorker is a 'performance poet', blurring the
boundaries between poetry, acting and music. His captivating
performance reveals him as a poet for our age, exploring modern ideals
of love as well as politics, war and materialism. He tells us he often
writes without punctuation, and it's clear he doesn't need it: his
voice conveys more rhythm and soul than marks on a page ever could.
Ainsley shows exactly what can happen when poetry leaps out of musty
anthologies and onto the world's stage. If this is the future of
literature, I'll be at the front of the queue. |
