Three years ago I heard of a project being launched to put poets into cafés.  It was limited to city cafés and was called something like Poets in Residence.  The organisation initiating the program was not interested in branching out fifty kilometres south, so I went to my favourite Mount Eliza coffee establishment, ‘In the Kitchen’, and told the owners that henceforth I would be their Writer in Residence every Wednesday afternoon.  How could they resist?

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