Dear Patricia,
Almost my bedtime here – I’m tired too after giving three lectures today. I love the poems (and I recall some from the cd’s I received from Carolyn). I would like to put two in July’s issue 10 and two in the following January Issue 11, please. The aphorisms are also great and I hope to include all of them in July’s issue, when David Brown’s review is due to appear.
I have written a letter to Carolyn, which my wife will post for me on the weekend. I loved her and David’s cd’s so much that I would like to incorporate them into my POETS AND POETRY course, one of the courses I have taught for sixteen years at the adult education department, Swansea University. My course teaaches the full craft of poetry, considers major poets and poetry movements, and includes a section called ‘Poets Live’. In ‘Poets Live’ students study audio recordings of poets and videos (including poests such as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and dear Stanley: a superb performer). Carolyn’s and David’s cd’s are ideal for ‘Poets Live’. I have asked them for permission in my letter.
My best wishes,
Peter
