Coincidences

A few coincidences this week: I was reading in the Poetry Book Society quarterly bulletin the other day about Sean O'Brien, which included his poem Habeas Corpus. That evening, my poetry group was cancelled and instead, some members met at a reading that was on in Sheffield that night: by Sean O'Brien. Among the poems he read was Habeas Corpus.

Also in the bulletin, because his book For All We Know was the latest Choice, was Cieran Carson. And who should be reading at the conference I'd been invited to that following weekend but Cieran Carson.

And then who was the highlight of that conference, but Sinead Morrissey: the same Sinead Morrissey who was ackowledged at the end of Cieran Carson's For All We Know, thanking her for editorial support.

It's a small world, poetry.