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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 -- Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com