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Between Twitter and Facebook I've been a bit tardy on the blog. Apologies.
You know there's really something to be said about being able to write without watching the character countdown or the FB status update saying it can't publish due to word overflow!
Words. Something Michael Longley lives by. The Belfast poet was in great form today when we met at the Dickon Hall gallery in the Crescent Arts Centre to talk about his late friend the painter Colin Middleton. He said walking into the rooms of the gallery and seeing all the paintings was like "oxygen".
He also told me, off mike,Ìý that Mad Men was the best programme on the television right now. Intelligent and funny. I'm gathering a small but select list of well-known poets and their tv viewing habits. Ever since Seamus Heaney told me that he would never miss an episode of "Midsomer Murders", I've mulled over what poets do for down time. But Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby v Don Draper? That's no contest!