A good year with celebrations properly honoured – Guy Fawkes, turning on of Christmas lights, Christmas day – as well as a funeral.

2006

Bi-weekly swimming
Relearning French
Poetry Surgery
Published in New Welsh Review and Smiths Knoll
Arts Council grant
Tuscany
Taught four-week literature course (and one to one literature lessons)
Teaching once a week in Greenwich
Beard
Move to 1656 bakehouse
‘How’re you going?’ reconciliation with Liam.
Two readings – of my work, and Fivemiletown by Tom Paulin (w Sarah, Ali, Tania, Gen, Agnese in attendance.)
Greenwich teaching once a week.

Readings

Glyn Maxwell
Michael Longley
Deryn Rees-Jones (Oxford)
Greta Stoddart
Penelope Shuttle (Bath)
Tim Liardet
Gerard Woodward (Bath)
David Harsent
Fiona Sampson (Bath)

Low points

Preston teaching

Books of 2006

Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon
Robert des noms propres, Amelie Nothomb
On the Contrary, Miroslav Hollub
Collected Poems, Cavafy

Music

L'Histoire de Melody Nelson, Serge Gainsbourg

Films of 2006

Eric Rohmer’s Four Seasons
Little Miss Sunshine

RIP

Ivy Maud Cooper
Jean Palmer