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NOVEMBER, 2005

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

On 17th November, in The Shire Hall, Howden, I shared the story of my one week visit to Lagos, Nigeria, with an audience of nearly 40 people.

It's always a BIG THANKYOU to anyone who turns out to listen to poetry!

Mind you, I hadn't fully realised, in the run-up to the performance, the extent to which poems can be another, additional means of 'telling a story': a dove-tail combination of stories and poems, telling one story.

Accordingly, as one member of the audience said,"The performance was like being taken on a lovely journey, with stories and poems leading seamlessly into each other."


I sold 15 copies of The Tree (£5). All profits - from ALL SALES of The Tree - currently go to Oxfam. Thus, on this occasion, I shall be sending £45, plus profits from refreshments of about £13.

OCTOBER, 2005

The Tree, And Other Poems

On Thursday, 17th November, 7.30pm, I'll be performing poems from the collection of thirty I wrote after my memorable visit to Nigeria with my colleague, Ben, in October/November, 2004. The book, shown above, is £5 - for the time being.

Where? The Shire Hall's Theatre Downstairs
Tickets are £4/£3, from Touchwood Homecare, 2 Market Place, Howden, DN14 6BJ: Tel. 01430-431535

If you would like to book a performance for your community, please give me a call.

I'm delighted to have formed my own little publishing company, THE ADAM PRESS, named after my late Dad. I know that he would have loved to be a writer but, like so many men of his generation, his family couldn't afford him to stay on at school and after demob from the RAF he ended up in a job which ultimately worked against the grain of who he was.

At least in memory he can be associated with writing, as can the cottage he lived in! I like to think that, between us, my Dad and I have started a cottage industry.

HOW'S THAT! . . . FOR A GAME?

I wrote this poem celebrating CRICKET - NOT celebrating England winning! - the day after the final Test Match between England and Australia.

The book's cover is the photo I took when watching the first day of the second test between England and Australia at Edgbaston. Play is just about to begin!

The book is £1, and all profits go to the re-birth of cricket in our small East Yorkshire town of Howden.

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