Pete Morgan again

Turn­ing 70 has obvi­ously been stim­u­lat­ing for Pete Mor­gan.  He gave a superb, witty and mov­ing read­ing at the Bar Con­vent — start­ing with his back cata­logue and fin­ish­ing with read­ings from his recent volume “August Light”.  He seemed more relaxed than at his birth­day gig at the Uni­ver­sity in May.  Appar­ently he attemp­ted to inter­view W.H. Auden for the radio once — and was com­pletely defeated by the old curmudgeon’s lack of co-operation.

Amongst the sup­port­ing poets, there were excel­lent deliv­er­ies by, inter alia, Pau­line Kirk, Oz Hard­wick, and Andy Humphrey.  York is doing pretty well for accom­plished local poets these days, of whom Pete Mor­gan is one of the bright­est stars.    (Other stel­lar tal­ents are Anthony Dunn, Car­ole Brom­ley, Mairie McInnes and the great unsung-outside-York local hero, Don Walls).