Matt Sage MC

Benji Ming: (sketch) Woody Hill
Richard House: story of knight
present, maybe performed: Phil, Lesley, Sally (Anja's housemate)
present, didn't perform: Ed Pope
also present Jim Davies and Pip Payne who noted "The girl out of Shuffle drunkenly sang and was lovely and someone read a poem about Jack Kerouac and Carolyn Cassidy"

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Matt Sage MC

Nick (Parker? looked like George Michael)
Benji Ming: (sketch) Professor Fraser
Terry Walpole
Barney Dree
Matt Sage
Andy Porteous
present, may have performed: Judy (belly dancer)
present, didn't perform: Ed Pope
Jim Davies & Pip Payne who noted "there were stories and poems from the black poet"

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Matt Sage MC

Ed Pope: (story) my visit to Ireland in 1971
Doug (Anja's boyfriend): poem & story
Phil: dark moon poem
Barney (song): Drifting in England
present, may have performed: Lawrence (poet & mathematician), Judy (belly dancer). Terry Walpole, Alex Kramer, Christina, Phil, James
Jim Davies, Pip Payne who noted "several long stories were told and the rowdy poet was on good form"

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Adam Moore: poem
Jim Davies: New York poem
Pip Payne there

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Matt Sage MC in garden of Victoria Arms

Jim Davies (poem): Prussian blue and silver (from recently published "Collapsed Yellow")
Ed Pope: (poems) Pastoral/To live at all (Mervyn Peake)
Terry Walpole:
Tom: (songs)
present, maybe performed: Richard House
present: Benji Ming, Ali Kenner, Geoff, Pip Payne who noted the black poet read

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Matt Sage MC upstairs

Judy: (belly dance)
Ed Pope: (songs) Puppet in the pockets/My man hungry little sister is a teenage tart (headline from Georgette Floyd, "Answering your problems" Oxford Mail 2/12/1993)
Benji Ming: (sketch) Professor Boot
Barney Dree: (guitar song) Soul economy
Terry Walpole: (poems) Trebarweth Strand/Moonchant
Pip Payne: poem
present, maybe performed:
guy from Newport at Ruskin who knew Raga
Phil (Australian acrossage)

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present: Benji Ming, Danny (Gaelic)

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Matt Sage MC in snug

Andy Porteous played guitar
present maybe performed: Danny (didgeridoo and Gaelic poems)
present didn't perform: Ed Pope, Benji Ming
also present: Phil Muill & Emma, Julian, Belinda, Sophie Phipps, Eric, Cristina's sister Jo, Pip Payne, Jim Davies

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Matt Sage MC (upstairs or snug?) Burns night

Ed Pope: (song) Ode to the woodlark (Robbie Burns)
present, maybe performed: Terry Walpole, Judy (belly dancer), Warren Scott-Morrow, Belinda, Paddy

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Matt Sage MC (upstairs? at Victoria Arms)

Ed Pope: story of Oxford Poetry Group (1990 to 1992)
Pip Payne, Jim Davies & Andy Porteous there

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