Ralph, Ditto the comments on Merlinda Bobis - saw her at the QPF. Her musical interpretation of her poems and the Philipino flavour of her work certainly entertained. Clayton Ralph Wessman wrote: > Another festival, the one the previous week - the Tasmanian Readers' and Writers' Festival. The highlight for me was poet Merlinda Bobis, but it was good to catch up with Adrian Caesar. > > "What are you doing in Hobart," the taxi driver asked Adrian as he drove him from the airport. > > "I'm in town to take part in a literary festival. I'm a poet." > > "A poet eh. Well nothing wrong with reading poetry, so long as you do it in private and have got clean hands," the taxi driver replied. > > Ralph %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%