OCCASIONAL PHOTOS NO.5

Discovered on another blog today - this photo, taken by the blogger, Chris McKay, shows the great Seamus Heaney holding a copy of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. I've rarely been so thrilled.

The URL is http://scotland.imeem.com/photo/0tD1MH7f/2p2ZLy5MN23sT.

Earlier in the week, at last, we had a launch/talk event at the London Review Bookshop in Bury Place, Bloomsbury, just round the corner from the British Museum. It seemed to go well, it sold out and I was especially pleased (if a little intimidated) that my one-time English Lit tutor, R.T. Jones, was there. Without him my ability to do any sort of close-to-the-text critical scrutiny would have been the poorer, and without a doubt the Song & Dance Man of 1972 would have been so too.