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Be sure to go to Coole Park when you're in Gort, erstwhile Brazilian capital
of Ireland.  KInvara is wonderful.  Looks like a great tour!
Enjoy!
Mairéad

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
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