This event really popped the balloon of 12 events in London and pressure. It made the festival process feel easier, more adventurous, less entirely on my back. That is in no small part thanks to my co curator JT Welsch at the University of York, but also all the poets this night, who were so good and so nice, including really dear friends Dave Spittle, and Hungarian poets Kornelia Deres and Peter Zavada, with whom I travelled up and down with. Just really communal, generous, supportive atmosphere with excellent pairs work. https://www.europeanpoetryfestival.com/york22

For my own part, the third poet collaborator I had dropped out on the day so I did a weird solo thing, which I think worked quite well but also maybe came across a little more intensely than I planned it. Worth it to do but maybe 13 events effects you.