on 11/2/05 8:44 AM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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> Forgot to post this before - yes folks, I'm reading in Hawthorn tonight, and
> would love to see you there - usually pretty good events, as I recall -
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> All the best
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> A
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> Boroondara Soiree Friday 11 February at 7.30pm at the
> Mayor's Room, Hawthorn Town Hall, 358 Burwood Road Hawthorn
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> Featured readings by Alison Croggon and Matt Hetherington
> Open stage (register from 7pm)
> $7 and $5, includes refreshments
> Door prizes donated by Readings Books and Music
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> Enquiries 9278 4770
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> Alison Croggon
Alison was right. Good turnout. [However, my own little offering to the open
section was ill chosen and forgettable.]
One way I will remember it is Alison's reading of 'The Elwood Organic Fruit
and Vegetable Shop', feeling people listening at:
for the mangoes are soft yellow thighs and passionfruits hard and dark and
bursting in your palm
for the dull gold flesh of pontiacs and knotty umbers of yams and new
potatoes like the heels of babies
for the tubs of sweet william and heart-lifting freesias and orchids damp
and beautiful as clitoral kisses...
When the MC came back to the mike to thank her he quoted his favourite bit
but stopped short of the kisses.
Alison had to leave early, thus missing the raffle of two books from nearby
Readings bookshop. My ticket won the first, and my wife Marilyn's the
second, which we generously turned down so someone else's ticket was then
drawn. Generous? not exactly - if only we hadn't been sitting together, our
unusual luck would have seemed just ordinary.
Max Richards
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