on the road with a pioneering performance poet
- Written by: Craig Billingham, Lecturer, Creative Writing, UNSW Sydney
Sondem/ShutterstockThe Tour is Pi O’s verse diary about a small group of Australian poets who take their wares on the road in North America in the mid-1980s, sponsored by the Literature Board and the Guggenheim Foundation. This came to be known as “The Dirty T-Shirt Tour”, because Pi O’s dress and personal hygiene were...