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Got back Monday night from a stellar week in UK, touring with poets
Patrick McGuinness and
Zoe Skoulding. I read in Bangor, Manchester (this, thanks to
Evan Jones) and Oxford. I then spent a couple of days in London visiting with friends
Eric and Irena Ormsby (who kindly put me up),
Marius Kociejowski and
Todd Swift. The Ormsbys also organized a dinner where I met poets
Sebastian Barker (son of
George Barker and
Elizabeth Smart), his wife
Hilary Davis and
Christopher Middleton. Some nail-biting drama getting back home, however, as I ended up losing my passport at the always-chaotic Gatwick due to a colossal confusion at the check-in desk, and needed last-minute permission from the Canadian Deputy High commissioner. I made it on the plane by the skin of my teeth.
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Bangor, Wales
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Patrick protecting himself against the next Irish Famine by growing potatoes in his yard.
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Zoe Skoulding reading at Ogilvie Theatre Foyer, St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Yours truly reading at Ogilvie Theatre Foyer, St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Ian Gregson reading at Ogilvie Theatre Foyer, St Anne's College, Oxford.
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Patrick McGuinness reading at Ogilvie Theatre Foyer, St Anne's College, Oxford.
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High Street, Oxford
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Getting steadily spannered in an Oxford pub