Poets at Petersham Bowlo 17 Nov

With Virginia I went to Petersham Bowlo for a poetry reading yesterday, she knows Alan Jeffries who was the featured artist. His reading without page or screen was impressive, he’s been doing it for a long time and is very accomplished. I particularly enjoyed his poems for a woman in his life which were affecting and tender.

John (pictured) was one of the poets in the open mic session that started the evening and he made some interesting comparisons between life and airport transit lounges.

Luke Weyland who I’d met at another reading got up and read a poem about Y2K and when the interval arrived we talked about those long-gone days of worry and shared purpose. If you lived through the nineties (as both Luke and I had done) you must remember the general discussion about what the future might hold once the clock ticked past 2000.

Nobody predicted the Twin Towers. On the night my dire predictions about bad traffic were happily unrealised, it was not too bad getting to the venue despite it being rush hour.