Poetry at the Globe

It's a while since I last went to the Globe, but I got invited to the Poetry evening by a friend who was running it, so I thought I'd give the Kilvert's Open Mic a miss for a change.
It was a tiny audience - which was a shame, because David, Annette and someone with a white coat that said "Doctor Tits" on the back (Chris from Canada?) had worked really hard to put a show together for the first half. I was expecting a mic on the stage - but there was a bank of electronics, bass guitar, round drum, light show and DVD of shamanic images projected on the wall. They're calling themselves iBardic. The theme was based around readings from Technicians of the Sacred, which is a book of poems first collected by Jerome Rothenburg in the 1960s from a lot of traditional sources. David read poems and chants from the Navajo, China, New Guinea, ancient Sumer, Polynesia, and more.
There was a break for tea (it was a very non-alcoholic night) and then the open mic part of the evening, which David filmed to go onto Youtube. I did a medieval Welsh poem (translated into English!), a lady who often turns up to Kilvert's open mic did three or four, and then Chris, Annette and David performed some of their own poems. I loved the one David finished up with, describing a new Poetic language and followed by the first ever poem written in that language - which sounded a bit like Klingon!
There'll be another Poetry night in March (date to be confirmed) when the theme will be Poetry of the City. In April, they'll be doing Beat Poetry, leading up to a competition in May - I think the prize will be a slot in the Globe tents over the Festival.