Many Pounders (particularly UK ones) will remember Gordon Brown, from Sunderland, who has sadly died this month. He was a longstanding follower of Pound Conferences, supporter of NPF etc., and corresponded over the years with a number of distinguished members of this list, on the basis of his deep appreciation of Pound and his almost encyclopaedic reading of everything else. He was also a longstanding supporter of all poetry readings in the NorthEast of England, including the Morden Tower (the series set up by Connie and Tom Pickard, at which Bunting's Briggflatts was first performed in 1965) for which he edited _High On The Walls: an anthology celebrating twenty-five years of poetry readings at Morden Tower_ (Bloodaxe 1990). He was also a lifelong campaigner on local and social issues who will be sadly missed within all his communities. An event of the Bunting Centre's Centenary Celebrations (June 23rd-25th) at which poets and local people will give their own readings of Bunting poems has been fittingly re-dedicated in Gordon's memory. His family is offering a copy of his anthology _High On The Walls_ (with contributions by Heaney, Creeley, Ginsberg and a host of others) to members of this list who'd like one in his memory. Write (enclosing one pound sterling to cover post and packing within UK) to his daughter: Rosamunde Brown, 9A Heigham Grove, Norwich NR2 3DQ, UK. Outside UK: please increase this sum appropriately to cover post, and enclose sterling only. In my experience, poets and critics are pretty well two-a-penny - but a good reader, as Mae West may have said, is hard to find. Richard Caddel Durham