Tuesday, November 06, 2018

RU a Reel poet?

We may have closed the books but we have done poetry a great disservice - I've done poetry a great disservice - not to acknowledge that verse has been recorded on reel to reel, 8-track cartridges, cassettes and vinyl. It may not mean much to remark on recordings on the Internet but committing poetry to these older forms meant that it had at least a niche market.

I have fond memories of eight-tracks but only because we had a player in the white truck when we went on holidays so they're inextricably tied up with that, but they weren't the best technology.
As the video makes clear, they were replaced by the cassette and then the compact disc.

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