Significant Literary Events
- Pete Brown gave the first reading on the 16th June 1964: Bloomsday
- Basil Bunting gave his first public reading of Briggflatts in 1965
- Allen Ginsberg gave his first European reading of Kaddish
- Ed Dorn gave his first European Reading of Gunslinger
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