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THANK YOU - GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARK!!

Dear Mr. George Elliott Clarke,

 

I write this to you nearly three years after the fact, not seeing you, not hearing you, not even reading your books but there you are in my subconscious sitting at a dinner table in Toronto with A. Moritz , K. and Marg. I didn`t know you then, just knew of you and my landlady invited me downstairs to a dinner party with you and Al as guests. I was impressed to hear you and A. Moritz talk - very good with the words - the night could have gone on forever. It was like a girl once told me at a College tutorial: John, I remember that you held my attention and I thought you were smart but I can`t remember anything of what you said.

Why did I not thank you for writing a blurb for my book. Was I an Insolent Boy? I want to thank you now. I want to thank you immediately. I want to thank you with gusto and verve.

Why not? To answer this correctly: You, a fellow Maritimer. You a fellow Valley Boy. Well Windsor, N.S. is The Valley - Ask Sam Slick!

Part of the reason I didn`t contact you is that I was newly hired as a school teacher at a French School and I can`t speak French. Also the school was out by the Toronto Airport and it was so cold in 2002 and 2003. I wore a hoody and rubbed my hands together, learned a little French too. Metro, Buleau, Dodo. (Travel. Work. Sleep.)

I was also followed across the lawn of that school at sunrise in the middle of winter by two earnest young men from the maritimes. They had a little camera with them. The lady at the office, who never liked me much said: "How awful! "Paparazzi!"

It was awful but I was broke and in Love. Oh yes and I was in an awful desperate way. In fact instead of emailing you or asking to email you I asked Corb Lund of the Corb Lund and the Hurtin Albertans to drive off the 401 and park the band van at Wendy`s so that I could get in and tour with them after school was out. And I did. One of them said: Sties! Again?

But now is the time to thank you. I`m so happy that you are doing so well with your poetry, Rue and George, The Execution Poems, Beatrice Chancy to define the people and the place of Nova Scotia. I don`t even know you, really at all but I am so impressed by you. I love a great many of your words, the patois, the undercurrent of racism, the africadian expressions, Loyalist decendents. I`ve been there on the Acadia Lines Bus travelling along at my own speed into the Halifax North End. I`ve been there for the 1970`s Acadia University Basketball Games. Victor Soares! God Love You Mr. Clarke, I salute you. Please be Canada`s Poet Laureate!

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This week will be an intensive week of book reviewing. So those who have sent in - you now who you are - will get rewarded accordingly. The plan is to do ten in the next two weeks. 3 so far, so that leaves seven. So remember, take advantage. Send them books in. Who said Canada don`t got no culture? Rather, if England exported their culture around the world why can`t we bringer back boy? Thanks to Nick Waller at the Poet for recording stuffs. I won`t say who is in the picture. You might get an idea. Deb Dilworth took it, though.

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How Yah Doon?, London,  is accepting books of poetry, novels and rock and roll books for review. Please send your books to Editor, How Yah Doon? 35 B Park Grove Road, Leytonstone, U.K. E11 4PT. We cannot guarantee that your book will be reviewed but we will make every effort to review books which catch our eye. We also actively seek reviewers. Contact: editor@insolentboy.com

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**Highly Recommended**
John has performed at various venues in London including: The Oxfam Summer Reading Series, at Oxfam Books and Music in Marylebone, (w/ Nick Laird, Leontia Flynn, Tamara Roseloff, John Stammers, George Szirtes, Sally Read, Paul Farley). This features the best poets in London and recently featured the best poet I have ever heard: Les Murray from Australia. Canadian Todd Swift curates this event. John has also read at The Poetry Cafe, Covent Garden; Coffee, Cake and Kink, Covent Garden; Madefication, Aldgate; The Poet, Liverpool Street, London; The Upstairs Gallery, Clerkenwell;

**RECORDED EVENTS**

Some of these events have been recorded *live* and are and will be featured at a later date on the How Yah Doon? site.

Horton High School 20th Year Reunion?


Conversation at the bar.
Question: 'London? What you doon in that there, London?'
Answer: 'Tellin them 'bout Three Pools, boy!'
Question: "'Sarright? What about Three Pools?'
Answer: 'Up there by the swinging bridge, boy!'
Question: 'Some nice up there, wha?'
Answer: 'Yah, but you`ll lose hubcaps if you take Deep Hollow Road!"
Question:'Was that your car grill I picked out the front lawn, summer `85?'
Answer: 'Could be, boy. Could be!'
Question: 'In`t that sumpin?'

JOHN STILES *LIVE* IN LONDON

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