Wake at seven. On bike at 8am and arrive at Southbank Centre
at 9am to meet Nathan
Gallagher a photographer whom I accompanied to the arctic a few months
ago.   He has a startling  idea for a photograph.  We walk around the Southbank centre engaging
with the architecture to see where he would take the shot and we have
breakfast: Eggs Benedict. Time with Nathan flies.

At 11am I meet  the
GPS people. GPS is Global Poetry Systems an idea that has risen from my
residency through the skilful hands of Lucy macnab.  A group of eight literature workers from
around the country  are seeding the
project, piloting it with Lucy of the Southbank’s  dynamic and art centred Learning and
Participation team.   I introduce how the project came about and
what it means to me. 

After lunch at 3pm I cycle back to Hackney to my favourite
cafe on Broadway Market La Bouche where I
meet Corinne Pyke a dynamic arts officer at Hackney my borough council. We talk
about old Manchester friends and about public art in east London. It is an
extremely productive meeting and I am kicking myself for not having a pen and
paper.

At 5.30pm we walk gently back through London fields park and
wave goodbye at The Town Hall. She is a good person,  strong and with clear
direction. It is something I think about on a weekly basis, public art and particularly  Poems as Landmarks in
hackney. The last one I did was unveiled by Bishop Desmond Tutu  in The
City.