I bought JHPrynne a drink once, which he never returned. I almost ran
J H Prynne over. He was on his bike down past Mitchams Corner and I
almost swerved in surprise. The two events are not connected.
Roger
On 2/11/07, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Aha! Cue shameless namedropping.
>
> Famous Seamus once fixed me with an eagle eye and demanded to know
> where the name "Croggon" came from. I shared a taxi with Anne Carson
> in London. I had tea and buns with Jeremy Prynne on a William Morris
> carpet. I have enjoyed a number of hyper conversations with John
> Kinsella. Les Murray has slept on my floor and once drove me to
> Melbourne from Canberra. I went betting on horses with John Forbes and
> won on every race, so I bought him lunch. I'm sure I've said hello to
> other famous people.
>
> Some of these encounters mean more to me than others, some of these
> people I am very fond of. But meeting poets without the headline
> cachet but who are nevertheless brilliant has meant just as much to
> me. Sometimes much more.
>
> (I would have liked to hear Basil Bunting).
>
> I don't think celebrity has much to do with poetry.
>
> As one does, I interviewed a number of celebs when I was a journalist.
> The only person who ever reduced me to total tongue-tied awkwardness
> was Graeme Chapman from Monty Python (to me, he was a real legend). He
> was incredibly kind to me in a way I have never forgotten. But he was
> also a paralysingly shy person in his youth.
>
> All the best
>
> Alison
>
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