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Poor Richard 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 dear kanga 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 Leave Report Sabbatical • Departure • Arrival • Elgin Crescent • A Shot of the British Museum • At the Victoria and Albert • The Book of Kells • At Kew • Through Pisa • Return to Iffley • Mordros Source: Poor Richard: Poems. Wellington: Port Nicholson Press, 1982 Electronic source: Poor Richard: a TEI-conformant transcription All poems © W. H. Oliver	Sabbatical Refreshment they call it head down in the British Museum taking great gulps of tradition. Something of that. And more. An all black company playing Measure for Measure at the National Theatre. The fairytale princess gawky upon the screen all of an hour before midnight. Deaths in the Maze and the theatre of terror. Armoured and visored police under a hail of stones against an authentic backdrop of Mt Eden bungalows. And just off camera holding a broken head a violated tradition.