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Doug
On 2013-07-09, at 1:59 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This Friday sees the VERY LAST in the Leicester Poetry Society's series of
> regular readings, which stretch back over 60 years. The New Zealand born
> poet John Gallas, who has long been a resident of Leicestershire, will
> feature.
>
> The LPS in its day has hosted the likes of Robert Lowell ('the most drunken
> weekend of my life' - PF) William Empson (who had problems escaping his
> trousers) Sean O'Brien (who swore he'd never visit Leicester again) and
> Robin Hamilton (ahem) and was unflatteringly described in C.H.Sisson's
> autobiographical memoir as being stuffed with 'old people' and immortalized
> in academic doggerel in Donald Davie's 'The Shires'.
>
> Friday, June 12th, 7.30 pm, at The Atrium, Christchurch, Clarendon Park Rd
> Leicester. Admission free.
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
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