Is performance poetry key to the success of the continuation of this beloved art-form? I explore this further...

This is an interesting conundrum - and to answer it, we must first look back at poetry as an art-form and it's early days.

Poetry throughout the medieval period was written, but mostly it was spoken as a form of 'entertainment', then with the introduction and with the industrial revolution and the ease of accessibility to books within the late 19th and early 20th centuries poetry tra...