Arvon is 50
I've been lucky enough to work with Arvon over the last 15 years. Back in 1968, the poets John Moat and John Fairfax held their first course with a group of young people in a new Arts Centre in Devon. In his memoir, John Moat writes about the conversation he had with the Centre's manager, John Lane. "What did we want to do? I told him. I told him we wanted to find somewhere the young people could be away from everything, schools, family, and radios - alone with the opport
