I'm recovering from last night's reading in the
desperate for love series curated by Alan Hay and friends at Komedia, Brighton. I had the pleasure of supporting
Tom Raworth, one of the great presences in British poetry over the past few decades. He is a formidable performer as well as poet. I also enjoyed hearing the third poet on the night, Rowena Easton.
Equally amazing to me was the audience - young, engaged, and, unusually in my experience, about 90% unknown to me. I guess there were aroun...
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