My completely wonderful Stanza group pulled out all the stops and gave a great reading on Sunday. We had a large audience (nearly a crowd!) and even a few people sitting on the floor. It was hard not having any idea how many people might turn up but we had about 50 which is fabulous.
We read for about 6 minutes each, in two sets, and had printed out a pamphlet with a small selection of our poems which people found really helpful. I think a lot of them had never been to a poetry reading before. They seemed to enjoy it and were a wonderful group, ready to laugh in all the right places, and are already asking for the next one! It took so long to organise that I now feel quite flat and a little bit aimless. All poetry ideas have fled to the four corners of the eaves, so I will have to coax them down.
Not much more to say about it except it was great fun and I was on a high afterwards until just now! I think it's bed time ... so goodnight.
