By SCN
Pam Thompson is a clearly brilliant reader and performer, with a strong clear voice. As an audience, I was sure that she knew her own work.
However, for the first half of the lecture I felt disengaged with the material, and uninterested by the story of a mother and daughter who both married sumo wrestlers.
The lecture did pick up once we got onto what I would call "more up to date" material. Poems where she said she talked about her children: her son and daughter, and the story of "The Hoody."
Those pieces were her strongest, and the emotion, the narrative and voice came across much stronger in those piece, than in the original Japan based pieces.
Maybe this is because I am just leaving the stage of "The Hoody," to enter adulthood, and therefore I have some affinity for the characters in those particular poems.
Still, it was an enjoyable experience, and I would reccomend picking up a copy of Pam's book "The Japan Quiz."
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