July 1, 2007
On Friday evening, I went to see Roger McGough and Brian Patten perform their poetry at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank. I went on my own, which is something I’m no longer averse to doing if nobody I know is interested in going to something, but still I am not comfortable in [...]
March 6, 2007
On 23rd February, Gem and I went to our first Conversation Dinner; something I’d been hoping to do for some time, being a supporter of Theodore Zeldin’s ideas about conversation and personal history (for those who don’t know, my MA dissertation was on collaboration in Theodore Zeldin’s life writing). The first thing to note about [...]