After having his Screenplay Rejected by Every Producer 

in London the Author is Forced to Take A Summer Job

Popular Dub Poet Lefty White Boy "Gangsta" Butcher

spends the last of his Lottery Funding on a new tattoo.

"Me body is da canvas innit" he tells the Author.

(And his home is Marsha, apparently)

Influential editor Pixie Plunkett-Gussett condemns 

the Author's new work for lacking "charm" since it fails to contain

the essential words "Jane" or "Austen"  It would help enormously,

she confides to his Agent, if the Author were:

(a) a Woman   (b) under Eighteen-years-old

His Agent says they'll work on it.

The appearance on stage of lady-boy poet Gary Chutney 

(see post for 20th March) 

at the Kilburn & West Hampstead Literary Festival 

has a galvanizing effect on the audience

Backstage at the Kilburn & West Hampstead Literary Festival 

and Poetry Slam the veteran poet Oliver Bentley is challenged

to write a Haiku about a biscuit

The Author discovers the work of the great Finnish

film director Aki Olavi Kaurismaki and in a moment

of misguided enthusiasm attempts to adopt

 old-fashioned Socialist Worker fashions

The Author discovers the life of the artist at an early age