So it's not just Canada that plagued by monotones...

Many readers admitted to the same bafflement over why anyone would go to public readings. Many correspondents expressed frustration at the mandatory monotone of the Canadian poetry reading. We do all know the sinking feeling one has on finding a seat in a dark room and hearing the first reader get up and begin intoning with that regular stressing of every second syllable that poetry seems to encourage -- you know: "If I hear a no ther po etry read ing that sounds like this I'm go ing to DIE...

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