I'm in London sort of near Camden Town and have you been out and about or are

you still mostly indoors? I used to pride myself on not leaving the house for many, many days in a row,

but since lockdown I got out for quite a long walk every day. Do you have a particular route

that you now stick to for your daily walk or do you try and vary it? Well I noticed I was walking

along thinking oh god there's my bloody favourite tree again so then I started being a bit more

adventurous but I like I started walking into the West End to check on all the theatres when they

were closed to sort of see if there was anything any signs of life and then sometimes I'd go into

churches and like candles of people who weren't doing well so I was sort of trying to keep my eye

on London itself feeling that it was really vulnerable and needed me and needed me to sort of

do a little stop-taken and spread a bit of comfort so I tried to do that. Are you trusted to

Hampstead Theatre? I'm one of them, yeah. Today is our first day non-soucially distant so that's

quite a big deal. Brilliant. John, have you booked any theatre tickets yet? Rachel has bought

as tickets to go and see Jerusalem which we missed the first time around the Mark Rylands

McKenzie Crock. I'm quite excited. That's good. I haven't done much for the last week except

read books about and look at pictures of John Berryman and now I'm looking at Mitch and I'm thinking

you look too like John Berryman. It's really disturbing, sorry. It's genuinely quite anyway.

Why don't we start? Hello and welcome to Backlisted. The podcast that gives new life to old books.

Today you find us in the snug at Rylands pub in Dublin in 1967. In the corner there's a man

reading out from an untidy notebook. He's an American, probably a poet, the large grizzled beard

and a rasping voice that goes from an anguish whisper to a mad shout in the space of a single line.

Is he talking to himself? A guy called Henry? And who is Mr. Bones? Hard to say, but he's filling the

place with laughter and tears. I'm John Mitchinson, the publisher of Unbound, the platform

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