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Thank you Erminia. I am rather short on grace at the moment. Which reminds me... when I read at the South Bank a few years back, Judith Palmer, who had introduced me, suggested afterwards that you can anticipate a poet's physical appearance by the shape of his / her name. For instance, she said, Jamie McKendrick with all those 'i's and 'k's was always bound to be tall and slender (he is, of course, one of poetry's few pin-up boys), while Roddy Lumsden, she continued, with all those 'o's and 'd's was sure to be, erm, um... at which point we were both rather red in the face. Roddy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%