Arga Warga t-shirts despatched

All orders for Arga Warga design t-shirts have now been despatched. If you ordered one but haven't received it yet, please tell us. Many thanks again for your orders.

Footage of Russell Hoban at the Some-Poasyum

A short film, captured with a mobile phone, of Russell Hoban reading from Come Dance With Me is now available on the Nomad Books Evening page of the convention website. If you were there - relive the experience! If you weren't - now's your chance!

Merchandise update

Thank you for all your "Arga Warga" t-shirt orders. We are no longer taking new orders for t-shirts or mugs. We do however have some "Trust Me With the Idea of You" t-shirts left and there are plenty of the superb and exclusive Celebratory Booklets still available!

Please send us your feedback!

The organisers of the Russell Hoban Some-Poasyum have drawn up an online feedback form for participants to fill in, to let us know their experience of the convention. We're not fishing for compliments, but the information gathered will help us work out if we did the right thing in February and if not, how we (and/or future organisers) could do it better or differently next time.

As well as sections for rating and commenting on the individual activities, features, venues etc, there are also boxes where you can make suggestions for the content, location and date of any future convention or Kraken gathering.

There is also a second feedback form designed for Hoban fans who might have wanted to come to the Some-Poasyum but, for whatever reason, didn't. We're just as keen to hear from you, in case there was anything we did which made it difficult for you to attend or anything we didn't do that you might have wanted to see.

The forms should only take a few minutes to complete and will hopefully be a bit more fun than your average hotel/car rental/training course/airport questionnaire. All questions are optional and all information is submitted anonymously. Please leave blank any questions that are not applicable or which you don't wish to answer. The statistics gathered from the forms may be posted (in aggregated form to protect respondents' anonymity) on the website and/or The Kraken.

To send us your thoughts, please go to www.hoban2005.co.uk and click "Feedback" in the main menu.

Arga Warga tee-shirts are go

Apologies to anyone still awaiting an Arga Warga tee-shirt! After some unavoidable delays we are now ready to roll with these (see http://www.hoban2005.co.uk/merchandise.htm) ... from the same manufacturers who supplied the excellent tee-shirts for the Hoban Convention in February. This was the design (based on p.a. morbid's graphic) that took the fancy of so many Riddley Walker fans at the Convention, but which we had not at that stage been able to print up.

There will be one printing only, to satisfy present demand: we won't be keeping any stock, so it's now or never! We'd like to be able to put in all the orders together: closing date will be 31 May. If you've already ordered, it would be a help if you'd drop us a reminder (stating whether or not you have already paid): this will be useful for cross-checking our records. If you haven't ordered, please do so before the end of the month. Remember to state the size you require, S, M, L or XL (of the previous designs, Large and Medium were favourite choices: small is effectively a child's size).

The shirts are 12.50 GBP, and postal rates per territory are specified on the merchandise page (link above). There you will also find a link to PayPal, our much-preferred means of payment.

Some-Poasyum website update

The original 'agenda' pages for the three days of the convention have now been removed from the convention website and replaced by pages documenting the main activities: the Friend at Hand meeting, the Il Fornello dinner, the Tour of Hoban's London, the Nomad Books evening, the Canterbury trip and the Troubadour dinner. More photos have also been added to these pages, and the 'reports' and 'merchandise' pages have also been updated. Please note that we're still interested in receiving photos from the weekend, so if you have any please contact us. See the updated site at www.hoban2005.co.uk

Such a night...

The convention was a great success! Our warmest thanks to the 50+ people who came along, many from hundreds or thousands of miles away, and made it all happen so well.

The website has now been updated to include photos from the weekend and recent cuttings from the national press mentioning the Some-Poasyum. More detailed reports on the weekend by the participants will also be posted soon.

Some now-redundant pages have been removed, but keep an eye on the merchandise and booklet pages for updates and details of how to purchase more unique Some-Poasyum souvenirs.