British-born Donald Gardner (London 1938) has lived in Holland since 1979 and earns his living as a translator. His debut as a performance poet was in the 1960s in New York where he lived for three years, taking part, for instance, in the legendary 1967 reading at the East Village Theater. He is a translator of poetry, notably of work by Octavio Paz and Ernesto Cardenal. In the 1960s his work was published in many small magazines in New York and London. Back in London, he founded a group of street poets, Guerilla Poets in 1968. In the 1970s he was a street actor with the London group of the Living Theater, playing in London, Yorkshire and Belfast. Since moving to Holland, besides writing poetry, he has made a number of one-man performances of his poetry. One of these, "Oedipus on Ice" (1982) was remarkable in that it was an entirely new performance every time he presented it. In 1987 he presented his monologue, "Chicken with Madness", directed by Italian choreographer, Patrizia Filia. It was one of three poetry performances selected for Amsterdam's year as Cultural Capital of Europe (1988). Besides performing it 50 times in Holland, he has also played it in New York - at Dixon Place and the Poetry Project (Saint Marks Church).