This made me laugh Lawrence. Oh yes. I was called a lager lout once at a poetry thing though I was actually drinking cider.
Tim
On 27 Aug 2015, at 11:55, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> I was rereading sections of Peter Barry's Poetry Wars from Salt where he
> quotes some of the disdain of some for poets .people generally who were now
> turning up to gigs smelling of and carrying beer. Peter quietly wonders it
> might have been different had they (we) been carrying wine.
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