I suggest we commission a designer to come up with a uniform. The folks that designed the 2012 Olympic logo might be a bit stumped for work. How about asking them.?I quite fancy something in organic cashmere twill, understated. Pleated. Bound. Loud.

That dress Bjork wore -- the one that was a swan with its beak twined round her torso but for us poets let's have the beak to the rear, heading netherwards. And instead of laying eggs, we could straddle briefly and drop cds of our work.

No, I disagree. Let's wear something created from that hi-tech cloth that makes you invisible: its fibres pixilate whatever's behind and transmits --live-- on the surface of the cloth. They'd hear us but they wouldn't see us. Oh, hang on that's a CD and we've just laid one of those in the previous costume.

I disagree and agree but disagree more. But what about?

What I'm making is a scattered totem pole: see side avatars and stack. Like Tetra only lesser.

Moxy
You are pleasantly bonkers
Keep it up

Thank you, Baz, and now you are part of the totem pole! Or spaced-out Tetra style thing with faces.
What are you intending to wear at your next performance? I had heard that some poets 'go commando.' Oh, and I'm using a down-cast face to keep the pattern going. But actually I'm grinning away here.

I think performance poets should wear each other - that should stop them

Isn't that Silence of the Lambs?

As my old dad would say, "if you can't make an effort, don't bother". Tonsorial standards at poetry events are far too low. I'll exempt P. Crompton from that, the man always manages to wear a tie no matter how windy it is.

Good grief
You are all bonkers!
Think I'll stick to stand up, at least they are sane.
Seriously though, I love nutters

Mock Turtle costumes for one or two of you, I think...
Me, I'd opt for sommat by Vivienne Westwood.

Did I say tonsorial, I think I meant sartorial, or did I?

I, personally, myself always keep my tonsils polished, gleaming and ready for inspection at all times!
Say Aaahh!

'Tonsor' is another word for barber.. 'I am going to the tonsors,' sounds a bit, well, peculiar and too close to another word. Actually, tonsils can grow hairs. Fifteen people in France died last year from it because it went undiagnosed. A baby in Norway was born with three tonsils.A monk went to the tonsor and got tonsured. I guess he could have gone to the barber and got barbed and that would have had greater religious significance. So, what's the best hairstyle for a performance poet? The Rimbaud 'flop,' the Armitage 'fringe,' the John Cooper Clark 'electric stack,' the Steve Smith 'school flick,' the Ted Hughes 'bird-legged abusive dream ferret,' the Lewis Carroll 'logical conjuration of the numerical rabbit,' the Henry Normal 'nib?' And how about hair products specially designed for poets?

Apologies to afficianados of the letters 'e' and 'i.' I missed off the 'i' from Stevie Smith and the 'e' off John Cooper Clarke in my previous blah blahs. Obviously, my vowels weren't working properly. At least I wasn't consonantated.