My You Tube experiment
With the release of my chap book ‘Love and Fuck Poems’ I thought it timely to try out an experiment I have been meaning to try for some time. Many people have told me I should post my performance poems on You Tube to increase my profile and I thought, why not, let’s try it. Since I am in Cyprus at the moment I have decided to record myself performing my poetry at different locations in Cyprus. The first is Mediterranean madness on a Limassol Beach. Stay tuned for more.
This You Tube experiment is just one of the things I am trying out in order to promote my work. You can have great art but if you don’t package the art in an appealing way and target it to the correct market it doesn’t go anywhere. But sometimes I feel I am only at the base of a huge mountain and I just want to give up and go onto the next project but something keeps pushing me on. For me this book is about so much more than love and fuck, it is the significance this writing has to my culture, and woman within my culture. Times are changing and the Greeks are still clinging to the old ways but Cyprus has moved on: it’s moved on! I guess this book has become more like feminist literature and if I can inspire a repressed or unhappy woman to change her circumstances and to be unafraid then I have done my job. Let’s see what becomes of all this! Till my next post.
msdebbie said,
September 20, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Gorgeous Koraly! You look amazing on that Cyprus beach! Thanks for starting some youtube experimentation xxx
Koraly Dimitriadis said,
September 21, 2011 at 4:40 am
Hi Debbie, thanks! I was worried about the audio because of the wind..i hope people can hear all my words okay
Benjamin Solah said,
September 21, 2011 at 4:52 am
Excellent Koraly! This is the piece I remember from your feature and loved it.
I just blogged about people using video and YouTube last night. It’s great fun.
Koraly Dimitriadis said,
September 21, 2011 at 4:54 am
Hi Ben, thanks! More poetry to come from Cyprus. I’m planing to do ‘how to get a fuck’ in the ancient ruins of a castle!