How utterly annoying. I have somehow accidentally published my notes for a future post, which have now been live all morning while I struggled with a recalcitrant and very ancient copy of OXS and an equally balky computer. Damnation. Pardon me while I quickly make this into a real update post!
Okay, now aside from the Oscar Wilde night which will take place at Lemon Monkey café in Stoke Newington, north London, on Saturday Feb 13th, we have the following:
I will be reading on the Saturday after that, Feb 20th, at the poetry Café in Betterton St, London WC2. The other readers will be some very esteemed Salt Publishing colleagues, and the unsalted Roddy Lumsden. Chris H-E has kindly blogged the details so I don’t have to; just click here.
Me and the Dead is in paperback! Yes: you can now have a soft, bendy copy of your own, for less money than the hardback! Why not complete your Me and the Dead collection today.
Oscar & Henry is bouncing around in the real world, and has been reviewed along with the other Rack Press titles, in the estimable online organ The Bow Wow Shop.
Michelle McGrane, over at Peony Moon, has kindly as Salt, blogged the details of the Oscar night – so, rather than do it all myself again, I’ll send you to her. I also gave her a poem from the pamphlet, with which to whet your appetites. Really, it is a service and a half she does me, for she is in South Africa.
Dear Katy
I’ve composed a limerick to cheer you up. (I’ve written over 400 limericks but I still enjoy them.) It goes as follows:
‘There is a young lady named Kate
Who writes a poetry blog which is great.
The stuff that is in it
Is up to the minute
And her readers view her as a mate.’
Eat your heart out, Seamus Heaney!
Best wishes from Simon
Have fun at the readings, Katy.