Monday, April 5th, 2004: Georgia Scott
Georgia Scott, a Boston poet, has read and signed
copies of her latest collection The Penny Bride (Poetry Salzburg,
2004). This is what the critics have to say about her writing.
 April
5th, 8pm: Georgia Scott accompanied by Phil Shoenfelt
Back by popular demand! Georgia Scott, a Boston poet,
has read and signed copies of her latest collection The
Penny
Bride (Poetry Salzburg, 2004). This is what the
critics have to say about her writing.
"The Penny Bride is a true love song . . . a tribute
to passion itself" - Elaine Feinstein
"So there is still the possibility of real poetry" -
Theodore Enslin
"Georgia Scott’s new poems offer a unique combination
of craft and historical consciousness" - Ernest Smith,
Cold Mountain Review
 "Georgia Scott provides us with terse but vibrant
images, tensed voices and even tenser lives, stories that
gather momentum each time you read them through"
– Daniel Bourne, Artful Dodge
"A distinctive voice . . . a feminised Eliot" – Philip
Hobsbaum
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See photos from her previous performance at
Alchemy.
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Also appearing with Georgia that evening
was singer/songwriter Phil
Shoenfelt
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"The Penny Bride is a true love song . . . a tribute
to passion itself" - Elaine Feinstein
"So there is still the possibility of real poetry" -
Theodore Enslin
"Georgia Scott’s new poems offer a unique combination
of craft and historical consciousness" - Ernest Smith,
Cold Mountain Review
"Georgia Scott provides us with terse but vibrant
images, tensed voices and even tenser lives, stories that
gather momentum each time you read them through"
–
Daniel Bourne, Artful Dodge
"A distinctive voice . . . a feminised Eliot" – Philip
Hobsbaum
 Scott’s recent publications include Cakes With Bathsheba
(2003), The Good Wife (2001, 2nd ed 2002), and Time Changes
(1999), and two books on women writers. Her work has been
translated into six languages. Frequently combining music
and movement to perform her poetry, she has given readings
across the U.S.A. and Europe in venues ranging from theaters
to a Czech bordello as part of the international poetry festival, "Poetry
Without Borders," in Olomouc. She has been a Martha
Ellen Tye Guest Artist in Iowa and has performed in the Joaquin
Miller Cabin Poetry Series in Washington D.C. in addition
to giving readings for TV. On her last reading tour in the
U.S.A., she gave readings and poetry workshops at numerous
universities, among them Georgetown University and Rhode
Island College.
Georgia Scott’s poetry has, however, been subject
to some censorship in the U.S.A. After her last collection,
The Good Wife, was placed on several readings lists at one
college in the mid-West, a furor arose over the book’s
cover. Considered "indecent," The Good Wife was
restricted to certain classes and struck off the syllabus
for in coming freshmen. She also came under pressure not
to read or do anything erotic in her performance at one college.
The
same Viennese photographer whose work is on the cover of
The Good Wife has done the cover for The Penny Bride which
will be on sale at her preformance in Prague. She’s
not worried about any censorship from the folks at Alchemy.
Here is an excerpt:
 When I wake and find the tree topped with snow
I remember
how you first tasted
melting
bursts
of snowflakes
as you pulsed
your dark sky above
my open mouth.
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