Well after last week's excitement you'll all be glad to know that visiting poet Dora Malech is fine and has commented to the effect in the post below. And you'd be mad if you didn't get along to this week's Writers on Mondays for a rare glimpse of the wonderful Geoff Cochrane, who'll be chatting to James Brown about his latest release from VUP, 84-484 (his grandparents’ phone number in the '50s). Damien Wilkins has said his writing is ‘both stubbornly austere and wonderfully witty’, and his conversation ‘has the range of a voracious reader and the depth of some voracious living’.

If you're in Christchurch there's the Kim Hill/Paul Callaghan event - they're touring with their book As Far As We Know: Conversations about science, life and the universe (Penguin), which should also be riveting. That's at the Great Hall in The Arts Centre at 6pm
Tickets $12 from the Arts Information Centre – contact Ruth 03 384 4721. Have a great weekend.