I was on my way to a symposium about poetry and religion ... It all began in the shuttle bus from the station to the campus, which was full of girls.

Arnold Jansen op de Haar made the following observations:

Do they only have female students? I wondered. Besides, they were much prettier than thirty years ago and the few young men I spotted seemed to be ‘just tolerated’.

They would have fought for tickets to Poetry and Justin Bieber or Poetry and Brad Pitt. Les Murray isn’t a singer, actor or model. Well, by his girth he is worth three models, but he has six times more to say.

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