Just a quick update for all you R.P. Lister fans. Richard celebrated his 97th birthday in November. He is still enjoying life, music and poetry. He still keeps notebooks full of poems and ideas for poems, which even he now finds difficult to decipher, a fact that causes him great amusement. He enjoys the fact that people continue to rediscover his works, and I relay to him the delight The Idle Demon has brought to many friends and acquaintances.
There will be a performance of Richard’s poems in London at The Poetry Cafe
http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/cafe/ on the 15th. I can’t get, but I thought any nearby Sphereans might be interested.
A TEMPTATION TO
Spend An Hour With
THE IDLE DEMON
Listening to the humorous verse of
R.P. Lister
Performed by Donald Pelmear
R.P. Lister wrote for Punch, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly
3.00 p.m. 15th December 2011
At The Poetry Café
22,Betterton Street, Covent Garden, WC2
Free! Will cost you nothing but your time
I am still enjoying exploring Richard’s works, and it is great fun meeting up with him when I can.
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