From Wendy Freeman. WLB. For Dave Reeves VIPRIP.

Let us Celebrate, yet let us Weep, it is allowed, a loud.....noise/embarrassment/wet/nuisance/ tears/unavoidable/privilege..
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I donate my favourite Dave haiku, from What Lies Beyond- Haiku Hike 2017, for wet weather walkers everywhere.

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What Lies Beyond, last performed in 2018 at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, in Waste Time-Ado, which was an interactive response to T.S. Elliot’s poem: The Wasteland Exhibition.
Dave performed as the Bradford Millionaire from the poem, he had The Top Hat for every occasion.

He was total joy to work with over the decades, and immensely hard working.: Raw Edge Magazine, The Talk Show at M.A.C., Extreme Writing workshops various, Radio Wildfire, and much much more.

My last email to Dave 18/7/19
“ are you still in England, wandered about you...hope all is.....Wending.”

Words have since failed awhile, but now herewith:-
an imaginary double act performance ditty, for the kitty. Dave playing harmonica and interjecting.....where inclined as he did so well.
Props include top hat, talcum powder, stick.
For the very ONE and only ONE....Dave Reeves,with deep gratitude, love and peace

Harmonica Blueshaze

What Lies Beyond?
what LIES
he's not dead
he's in France avoiding
politics, with a squeeze box
busking, harp -ing on, in
a Top Hat
about This -state of the world
or That- the Time for is
before done and dusted.
A stiff walk up a mountain
or a gentle slope would do
get some fresh air down you
and do the Write thing
DO

Wendy Freeman.

Comment is about Tributes paid to performance poet, musician, and historian Dave Reeves (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

I am so sad to hear this news. Dave was hugely talented and such a lovely person. I first met him when I interviewed him back in the early 80s when he led the Dudley Arts Umbrella and I was doing a project for an A level I was doing at night school, and knew him as a friend thereafter. I shall treasure his poetry and music, and his smile. I cannot make the celebration of his life tomorrow, but I give my heartfelt condolences to his family, and will remember him x

Comment is about Tributes paid to performance poet, musician, and historian Dave Reeves (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman

Thanks guys for this extensive and fitting tribute to a wonderful guy - I had no idea just how much Dave had achieved and how widely his interests and influence spread. And the photos are an absolute delight. There was nobody like him and he will indeed leave a Dave-shaped hole that's going to take some filling

Comment is about Tributes paid to performance poet, musician, and historian Dave Reeves (article)

Original item by Greg Freeman