ah, well, Hay, NSW is on the Murrumbidgee River, Pat which might sound festive but is mostly just muddy.
Bill
> On 18 Sep 2014, at 7:25 pm, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hay on Wye Festival ! here
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 17 September 2014 23:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Workshop task snap
>
> Hay is outback New South Wales, Doug and the workshop was at Melbourne Uni, run by Steven (Aus novelist) Carroll. It was part of a VATE conference (Victorian Association of Teachers of English) where you select various slots, some of which you know little or nothing about or, like this woman, soon discover you don't fancy.
>
> beay? Can't interpret your typo this early.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>> On 18 Sep 2014, at 6:20 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Ah, the beay lifting, Bill.
>>
>> But I don�t get the reference to Hay (too local?)
>>
>> She was in the workshop & left, but sounds like she dent know a thing about it�
>>
>> Doug
>>> On Sep 16, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Workshop task
>>>
>>> Excuse me, could you do
>>> me an enormous favour -
>>> you're in that room aren't you?
>>> I've just come from Hay)
>>> and I couldn't stand it any more
>>> in there so I've left but
>>> my umbrella's still in there ....
>>> What are they doing -
>>> just sort of writing
>>> or something?
>>>
>>> Sure, OK.
>>>
>>> I'll just come up to the door
>>> if you just sort of pass it out ....
>>>
>>> Where is it?
>>> For some reason
>>> I expect it to be red.
>>> My second room rake
>>> reveals a black one.
>>> Next to someone.
>>> On top of an Age.
>>> This better
>>> be it ....
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
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>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2 (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> that we are only
>> as we find out we are
>>
>> Charles Olson
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