The beat requires the extreme elisions and only a performance poet would get the rhythm right.

Thayil is also known as a performance poet and musician.

He edited the literary magazine, Planet, and was a popular performance poet.

He is a performance poet, for whom very different places can be stages for his reading.

Will Georgantas, the program coordinator for the school, said that the first visitors to the school's writing forums would be performance poets.

Pobjie is also a performance poet and comedian, performing around Melbourne.

Charles first appeared on television as a performance poet, which led on to minor presenting roles.

Charles began his career as a contemporary and urban performance poet on the British cabaret circuit.

He now runs a literary agency and also works as a performance poet, cultural consultant and translator.

Roger Stevens is a performance poet, author, musician and artist.