Hi I just wanted to tell you about the 50 birthday celebrations at The Poetry Library. We went to the gala poetry evening at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Wednesday 14 May. it was an entertaining and magical evening. I didn't really want to come home.

The poets were Billy Collins, Sharon Olds, Carol Ann Duffy, Roger Mc Gough and Patience Agbabi. I felt the UK poetry world was there and they all seemed connected in some strange web. We sat near to people we knew and the woman I sat next to knew Peter one of my colleagues. The whole evening was a real buzz. After I walked out onto the new Hungerford Bridge, I didn't want to go home.

I suppose I felt connected in some small way.