Applause or the sound of silence - should you clap between poems?
At a poetry reading, do you prefer to applaud each poem – or to wait in respectful silence until the poet has completed the reading? To put it another way, are you a whooper and hollerer – or a polite murmurer? And poets – which reception do you prefer? Is it all to do with the time you have to read, and the place where you are reading? And even the kind of poem you are reading – or performing – ...
18th March 2016
