Southern Celebrations
December 8, 2008
John Hale shares events from New Zealand on Milton-L:
Greetings from the deepest south.
Inspired by the news from Alaska, here’s news about two events happening at the Milton world’s southernmost bastion, Dunedin, NZ First, a meeting of the city’s poets at which I held forth in varying
idioms to these mainly free-verse-writing bards, back in October. Go to Deep South: The English Department Ezine, Otago University
Then, tomorrow, at 6.30 pm, which approximates (given our longitude)
to the hour of Milton’s birth, we shall read his life through his
poems, cut a birthday cake and drink a toast to him. This is at the
Dunediin Public Library, which is very big on poetic and other
literacy-promoting events.
