Open Thanks

My friend and colleague Kelly Forrister (née O’Brien) stopped by this evening to hand me an autographed copy of Seamus Heaney’s New Selected Poems: 1966-1987. She studied with him and several others on a summer course at Trinity College, Dublin, and had pints with him after class. This was just after his appointment at Oxford, and before his Nobel Prize. I am touched that she would give me something so personally meaningful.

Funnily enough, although we only live a few pretty blocks apart in the sleepy idyll that is Ojai, she found out about my rekindled interest in Heaney from this website. Who says blogging doesn’t have its rewards? In the end I have only to say: thank you, Kelly. I will use it well.

One Comment

  1. Robert
    Posted December 9, 2007 at 11:36 am | Permalink

    Just a quick note to say that comment posting has been laboriously slow (thanks to Pearl for pointing this out). Turns out one of the RBL sites my blog software checks to try to weed out spam had died. So, it was waiting and waiting for a response — which means if you tried to post a comment recently, you, too, may have been waiting and waiting. But no more. I found the culprit. So the site should respond reasonably quickly again after you hit “Submit Comment.”

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