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Action Poetry video recordings

Series consists of edited video recordings of performances by Action Poetry participants at the Ground Round Theatre in the Banff Centre's Theatre Complex.

Flex Plan Nine : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Flex Plan Nine's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. Ice Weasels (4:47)
  2. Alone Together (6:15)
  3. Oldie Oh (6:35)
  4. 78 Dream Song (1:59)
  5. Healing Hands (8:45)
  6. Solar (11:18)
  7. Smatter (6:32)

Jill Batson : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Jill Batson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [I burn the ridges of my fingertips smooth] (1:08)
  2. [Joined at the skull] (1:18)
  3. [My table on the African reserve] (0:53)
  4. [She slapped me] (1:33)
  5. [I awake with my hands bleeding again] (1:47)
  6. [It has been twenty days] (1:54)
  7. [What is it like to hang from the neck] (1:16)
  8. [Crimson viscose drop of blood] (1:22)
  9. [The tartness prickling my tongue] (1:33)
  10. [The wedding ring glinted] (2:21)
  11. [Sometimes I am a circus] (4:37)

Kedrick James : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Kedrick James' performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [Since I have chosen to reason with my devils] (2:50)
  2. [Yesterday a breeding hostility] (3:19)
  3. [Psycho-optic astronaut] (5:56)
  4. [Mein soul is mortal but mein deeds return] (3:00)
  5. [A mountain made of fists] (1:50)
  6. [Do you feel boxed in and freaked out] (0:42)
  7. [For a kingdom liveth God] (0:34)
  8. [My body splits open] (0:48)
  9. [Hallelujah my soul] (1:40)
  10. [Hey I feel wonderful today] (0:19)
  11. [Manu manu] (3:25)
  12. Socialism 101 (2:41)
  13. Poetry’s new world order (3:49)
  14. Home is where the apartheid is (1:33)
  15. Poem for a stop sign (2:06)
  16. Abattoir of light (2:14)

Clifton Joseph : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Clifton Joseph's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [Wo ho wo ho – when I look at the situation] (2:23)
  2. [I’ve got intense paranoia] (3:15)
  3. [Preamble] (2:17)
  4. I remember back home (2:23)
  5. [Shots shatter, people scatter] (4:32)
  6. [Preamble] (1:02)
  7. [Song for John Coltrane] (3:17)
  8. [Been lookin’ lookin’] (4:39)
  9. [A chant for Monk] (10:02)
  10. [Working at the factory] (1:34)
  11. [Pimps] (3:03)
  12. [Shots rang out on my block on Eglinton] (8:08)

Alex Ferguson : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Alex Ferguson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [Foreign language] (1:14)
  2. [I’m a smoker and nobody loves me] (2:22)
  3. [The future] (2:09)
  4. [Kitty] (0:49)
  5. [Executive mantra] (2:23)
  6. [The first ruby] (2:00)
  7. [Stroke your box of pain] (1:18)
  8. [The mad ferret] (1:59)
  9. [Last night I dreamed] (0:40)

Jayne Cortez : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Jayne Cortez' performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. I got the blues (1:31)
  2. Into this time (3:30)
  3. So what (0:45)
  4. [I am New York City] (1:50)
  5. [If the drum is a woman] (1:28)
  6. [In Brazil] (2:46)
  7. [Me and my people] (2:13)
  8. [And what about the poetry of Nicolás Guillén] (3:34)
  9. Rape (1:59)
  10. [Don’t write another word] (0:26)
  11. She got, he got (5:06)
  12. [These New York City pigeons] (1:59)
  13. Cultural operations ’92 (2:34)
  14. [Everybody wants to be somebody] (1:10)
  15. [Hey, be cheerful] (1:20)
  16. Everywhere drums (5:17)

Djewel Davidson : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Djewel Davidson's performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [You wanted to kill me] (0:58)
  2. [We got booked at the National] (0:19)
  3. Deeper than Pat Benatar (0:26)
  4. [Girl I’d really like to smash your car] (0:45)
  5. [What do we even talk about] (0:41)
  6. ‘Cause you can’t tape ‘em (0:09)
  7. [A few years earlier] (1:48)
  8. [I thought I knew what we were talking about] (0:32)
  9. [We got there and I told someone to start cooking] (0:59)
  10. [Painful and in silence] (0:31)
  11. [After about an hour and a half] (0:38)
  12. [Don’t want to remember] (1:17)
  13. [I woke up Monday morning] (0:30)
  14. [In the coin operated supermarket car] (0:21)
  15. [I’m keeping my shutters shut] (0:43)
  16. [It was warm outside] (0:12)
  17. [Perhaps I can be excused] (0:45)
  18. [Derrick was pleased] (1:54)
  19. Film shoot (5:00)
  20. [Time will tell] (4:00)
  21. [I ran naked through the threshold] (2:02)
  22. Song for Tamara (3:39)
  23. Nice try, now quit (3:29)
  24. [You know when you are with me] (3:44)

Darryl Keyes : [Action Poetry performance video]

Item is a video recording of Darryl Keyes performances at Action Poetry ’94. Performances include:

  1. [You can see beer wine magazine] (6:42)
  2. [Don’t move your hips] (6:45)
  3. [Incision] [With drum intro] (1:22)
  4. [Buying chunks of mama’s walls] (6:42)
  5. [At the movies] (8:22)
  6. Tiger eye (6:05)
  7. On the corner (8:58)
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