Paul Driver reads his poems on 30/11/2024 at the October Gallery, London as part of a concert for World AIDS Day. Featuring poems (and photographs) about friends Stephen Toms, Michael Vyner and Bayan Northcott.
Order of poems:
Demolition of the Middlesex Hospital Mortimer Street
Two friends who died of AIDS (M.V. and S.T.)
S.T. In the Royal Free
I. m. Stephen Toms
The great Fear
Memorial for Stephen Toms (1954-98)
Death of a critic
Kilburn Park tube station one Wednesday afternoon


Paul Driver was for many years a music critic, contributing to varied periodicals in London and the USA, and broadcasting on Radios 3 and 4. His publications include Manchester Pieces, a book of stories and essays; the novel A Metropolitan Recluse; the verse pamphlets Four Elegies, A Verlaine Dozen and A Musical Gathering; and the poems for Andrew Toovey's cantata As and When. Poems from A Verlaine Dozen have been set to
music by Ian McQueen.

Recorded in the October Gallery, London 30/11/2024 by Janet Davey
Recording and photographs put together by Rob Crehan

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