Hi Paul,
I've got a copy of the Grub Poems... good reading! I felt something for the
views Grub was offering. I felt Mooney caught the mood OK... I guess a few
poets made their mark when Thatcher was bullying the country, and Mooney
gave a voice to people I felt needed to be still recognised as people and
heard.
I missed a reading he gave in Newcastle on Tyne a few years back (perhaps
promoting a new book?) but I seem to recall hearing that it went well. He's
a mate of a mate of mine so I guess the reading would have careered well
into pint glasses as soon as it finished...
I think he is/was an editor of a poetry magazine somewhere in the south east
of Northern Ireland.
Then I heard he was in a serious car accident and I've heard nothing about
him since.
And hey, I keep trying to send messages to your posts, but none seem to end
up appearing!
I'll see what happens to this one (sent 12th. Feb!)
Now waterstones have stopped stocking poetry it's so difficult to know
what's just appeared...
Bob






>From: paul murphy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Martin Mooney
>Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 14:09:41 +0000
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