Just in case anyone’s anywhere near the North East of England this Saturday 
there’s a canny (that’s Geordie canny – ie BIG - and not Scots canny, ie 
rather small) Poetry Day in Middlesbrough, starting at 11 in the morning and 
ending after 11 at night!

Why am I mentioning it?

Well, as well as lots of other things, there’s the mega-big launch of All We 
Know Is All We See at 5 in the afternoon, then a real Burns supper where the 
haggis will be addressed by W.N. (Bill) Herbert (but I don’t know what 
either of us will do with the “Great Chieftan o the puddin race” after the 
pipes have played and the address “as lang’s my arm” is made – because we’re 
both veggies!). (H’m, maybe like the haggis when it was roaming free, and 
poor John Clare, we might have to eat grass…)

If anyone can make it then it’s in the Crypt (a cat free crypt?) of the Town 
Hall – - -

- - - But if y can’t make it and you’d like to hear some of the poems that 
you've read on yr screen set free to the air then if you let Roger Collett 
or I know it may be possible to get a reading somewhere closer to you!
Bob







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