Poetry. Tony Baker is a musician who, as his title suggests, sees a poem as a 'score' whose words are played through increasingly subtle and often amusing variations of rhyme and rhythm. These are poems wittily extended into sequences for specificoccasions: Peter Riley's 60th birthday, the demonstrations on 15th February2003, an elegy for Bob Cobbing, and the title piece was written for theFranco-Anglais Festival de Poesie in 2001. Tony Baker has two other books, both from Pig Press in the UK. Stapled chapbook.
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Poetry. Tony Baker is a musician who, as his title suggests, sees a poem as a 'score' whose words are played through increasingly subtle and often amusing variations of rhyme and rhythm. These are poems wittily extended into sequences for specificoccasions: Peter Riley's 60th birthday, the demonstrations on 15th February2003, an elegy for Bob Cobbing, and the title piece was written for theFranco-Anglais Festival de Poesie in 2001. Tony Baker has two other books, both from Pig Press in the UK. Stapled chapbook.
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