Jem Rolls

It's a performance poetry show, and I think in a sense, it's really about, you want to keep the audience ready for the moment.

If your lines are good enough, keep the audience for the moment.

So in a sense, I think in a sense, narrative isn't necessarily so important, or theme maybe, narrative not necessarily, story not necessarily, as long as your idea's good enough.

So it doesn't mean that there's a form that you're adhering to, any poetic form whatsoever.

Though I am having quite a good fun with cheap and nasty rhymes at the moment.

A little cheap and nasty rhymes, which I have to say are much easier to learn, folks.

Anyway, and so it's a lengthy process.

Some of these things take years.

The backstage part, which I'll do at some point fairly soon, that took a long time.

And I frequently write something silly for a couple of years.

decided it was rubbish, same when I buy shirts, or somebody buys me shirts, I always hate them at first, so I hang them up, putting them out two years later, oh that's a nice shirt, and then I say, oh what a nice shirt that is, you know, so yeah, it's a bit like that with poems really, so.

It's essentially A before you start the tour and B on the tour, everything gets better.

Nothing really, really gets worse.

I don't think I've ever known a piece decline from it.

It's just in the brute basic moment.

You just get a sense of what line's working.

And you know, you can have a great idea, but you just haven't expressed it.

a couple of words in the wrong order and you just find the right order and that kind of thing.

And also it gets a lot of fat out of the systems.

And most things, most poems get shorter.