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Apologies for cross-posting - I've at last been given some details of what has so far been my highly secret World Tour of England, Ireland and Scotland (organised by the Australian Poetry Centre), and hope some of you can come to some of these... Some dates are with my co-tourer, the poet Robert Gray, and I'm not privy to what else he is doing - but he's round and about as well, and worth hearing. And there's possibly also a reading in Hull. But possibly not. xA 15 OCTOBER LONDON - 1pm Robert Gray & Alison Croggon Poetry Studio, The Poetry Society 22 Betterton Street London GUILDFORD - 7.30pm University of Surrey, as part of the Guildford Book Festival Austin Pearce Lecture Theatre 1, University of Surrey, Stag Hill, Guildford website: http://www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk 19 OCTOBER – CORK READING: Robert & Alison 10pm at Ó Bhéal in Cork City website: http://www.obheal.ie 22 OCTOBER – DUBLIN READING: Robert & Alison 6.30pm reading at Unitarian Church, 112 St Stephen’s Green West 23 OCTOBER – GALWAY READING: Robert & Alison 8pm at the Library in Gort County, Galway 28 OCTOBER – EDINBURGH READING: Alison Reading with Emily Ballouat Scottish Poetry Library, 5 Crichton's Close, Canongate, Edinburgh 7.30pm 29 OCTOBER – GLASGOW READING: Alison 7pm reading with two leading Scottish Poets (Richard Price & Raymond Friel) now living in England at the Poetry Club, Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Renfrewshire. His collections include the Whitbread shortlisted Lucky Day, Greenfields, and, will launched in Scotland with this reading, Rays (all three collections published by Carcanet). His short story collection A Boy in Summer (2003) will shortly be followed up by the suspenseful novel The Island. He is seen as both an avant-garde and lyrical writer, a love poet and a poet of family and memory. He is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London. Raymond Friel was born in Greenock in 1963. After graduating from Glasgow University he moved to England and qualified as a teacher. His poems have been widely published in reviews and magazines. His collections include Seeing the River (1995) and Stations of the Heart (2008). He co-edited the review Southfields and ran Southfields Press for a number of years. He lives with his wife and three sons in Somerset. He is the headteacher of a secondary school. 31 OCTOBER 1–7 NOVEMBER – NEWCASTLE 3 NOVEMBER evening Reading and conversation about Australian poetry with Emma Jones Dove Cottage, The Wordsworth Museum & Art Gallery, Grasmere website: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/ 7 NOVEMBER Evening reading with Emma Jones and Jacob Polley Dove Cottage, The Wordsworth Museum & Art Gallery, Grasmere website: http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/ 9 NOVEMBER - LEEDS READING: Alison Reading at Chapel Allerton Library, 106 Harrogate Road, Leeds time required 11 NOVEMBER - LONDON READING: Alison 7pm Reading at Birbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London in room B29. TALKS series curated by Professor Robert Hampson. website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/events/ 12 NOVEMBER - LEWES READING: Alison 7.45pm reading at The Needlemaker's Café, West Street, Lewes, East Sussex website: http://www.needlemakers.co.uk/cafe.html this event has been organised by Lewes Live Literature website: http://www.leweslivelit.co.uk -- Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com