In his introduction, Burke writes that his collection "attempts to look beyond fetishising the digital age and its 'revolution,' instead seeing what's occurring now as a careful and important negotiation with what has gone before; a reworking rather than a rupture".
So is she wary of performing poems that were initially written "very instinctively" before being reworked for the page?
Spiders, with their wraparound windshield and removable windows, are rare — just 240 built before Lancia reworked the roadster to civilize it with a more conventional windshield, wind-up windows and a new name: convertible.
But Mary Shelley cleverly waited a couple of millennia after Aeschylus's big-budget production of Prometheus Bound before she reworked the story (ditching the eagle-eating-liver-every-day segment, which felt rather dated by then).
Dance was central to "Psyché," which originated in 1671 as a "tragicomédie et ballet" — a new genre — before Lully reworked it as a more conventional "tragédie lyrique" in 1678.
Originally recorded in 1992 as a spangled-up disco pastiche, this sat in the cupboard for a decade before being reworked as a sparse piece of sinister lounge jazz.
De Niro was intrigued -- but not enough to commit before Curran reworked it.
