Beautiful people, they go the same direction as you do...

Byron's first outing on the tube...capturing the art in action! (Melanie & John)

All that talk about London reminded me that back in April, Gill and I had a wonderful jaunt to the city to share our poetry at Loose Muse, a monthly women's writing event hosted by the fabulous Agnes Meadows. The evening was really interesting, and the audience attentive and interested, and the hostess full of energy and warmth. Only women read, but men are welcome in the audience - go along if you get the chance. It is held at the Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton St, London - details usually found on their site.

Gill, perfecting the 'poetic gaze' at the nearby pub as we take in our liquid refreshments...

Poetic gorgeousness in the form of Inua Ellams and John Challis...
who came along to support our London debut!

Anyway - like I said, we were invited down to read our poetry and talk a bit about Wild Women Press. What was fascinating was that in our audience, there were 5 women who had originally lived in Cumbria, but who had moved to London for work or because, at the time, they had felt there was no support for women writers up here - a situation they were glad to see had changed with the spirit of Wild Women Press!

We also got a chance to catch up with some fellow wild friends and enjoy the good old poetic connection - what better life is there than that of the BlissFool? The money may be little but the love is immense!

John shows us how he has sold his soul to the Devil at the Crossroads...
naughty boy, his soul was ours!