..... spent a very pleasant Saturday afternoon at The Lakeside complex at Nottingham University, drinking tea and munching cake and talking about poems with Mr. A. Baker (poet and editor of Leafe Press), Mr. C. J. Allen (poet and reviews editor of Staple magazine), and Mr. A. Buckner (poet and editor of Poetry Nottingham magazine).
It's a kind of regular monthly get together (which I've missed for the last two years) where we gossip a lot, laugh a lot, and then share a recent poem for like an informal workshoppy kind of chat. Except Saturday I didn't take along a poem because I've not written anything lately.
The recent issue of Poetry Nottingham, which needs new subscribers now it's become an interesting magazine and, as a result, lost the support of some of the older members of the Nottingham Poetry Society who looked upon it more as an in-house journal rather than a place for people they didn't know, is available from Mr. Buckner at 11, Orkney Close, Stenson Fields, Derby, DE24 3LW. A single issue costs £4 plus 55p postage. A subscription is £12 (overseas £20) for three issues. Go for it....
In other news, we're trying to ignore but can't because he was a hero the 30th anniversary of the death of Marc Bolan. I don't like anniversaries of anything, but it's difficult to ignore this one, what with all these white swans strolling across the lawn that runs down to the jetty, and swimming majestically on the sun-dappled waters of the stream that flows ripplingly by. Anyway, this afternoon I intend going for a Beltane Walk to get it all out of my system.
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