I found that if you can write to a suitable cadence, the audience would be very giving even if the poem itself wasn't actually saying anything. Very early on when I was a teenager, I learned that rhythm has got an awful lot to do with it. When I started out with the Northampton Arts Lab back when I was a teenager, I was initially doing poetry reading, performance work and trying to find ways to actually make these things more palatable to the listener. Did you have any anxiety being heard through your voice rather than read through your pen?Īlan Moore: While I have primarily been known for all of my published works over the past 25 years or whatever, there has never been a time when I've not been doing performance work. : The music on Unearthing makes for great soundtracking, but you have the perfect voice for spoken word. Lovecraft comic Neonomicon (out this month from Avatar Press), all in an engaging conversation conducted in what the influential writer calls his 'regionally accented midland slur.' To tell the story of his frequent collaborator Steve Moore, Unearthing contains photography by Mitch Jenkins and musical atmospherics from Doseone, Fog, Mike Patton and Mogwai's Stuart Brathwaite that back up the Watchmen writer's spoken-word performance.Īlan Moore spoke with at length about Unearthing, psychogeography, Second Life, the latest news in the long-running Watchmen rights controversy and his new dirty-minded H.P.

Thanks to dense tomes like Watchmen, From Hell, Lost Girls and others you should have read by now, Alan Moore has become a comics supernova well-known for words that deeply explore our own cosmological and Earth-based labyrinths.

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