so it goes...

[chrischopping]

After loads of phonecalls and emails plus some leafleters during the day, the religious protests during the Patrick Jones poetry reading turned out to be a bit weedy. Apparently there were over 200 of them outside the Embassy rooms earlier in the day but by 8pm God had tested their faith with a bit of cold and darkness and they'd all been found

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[chrischopping]

I'm not sure which stuff he sent in emails but there was some very bad stuff. There were some good bits too though, and hit and miss was better than I'd been led to expect!

[chrischopping]

which was rather ignoble of him but it seems to have paid off.

What I don't understand is how petty and small minded the Christian Voice seem to be, how scattershot in their targets.

I mean, if you go to cineworld you can see Choke, a film where someone thinks himself the reincarnation of Christ and trys repeatedly to have sex in a chapel in front of a crucifix. I would've thought Green would object to such things but apparently not!

Meanwhile, by arranging all these protests against Patrick Jones he's succeeded in giving the book more profile and publicity than it ever deserved or would normally have received. Surely he's bright enough to figure out how he's being used?

[missdisco]

the worst poetry was the most controversial stuff, with the 'vision so clitoral' lines and such.

a charming man, and a good speaker, but my god, an often dreadful poet that i thought if you're going to criticise creative writing courses and such, you should write much better poetry.

still lolling at your 'mmm, christy' comment.

as for the publishers, yes it has worked out for them, as a tiny publisher scraping by.