While you’re watching Charlie Brown, carving your pumpkins & decorating to get ready for halloween, there’s 1 more item you should add to the yearly rituals – reading Richard Brautigan poems!

I’ve collected 5 Halloween themed poems, including:

Boo, Forever
There is Darkness on your Lantern
The Pumpkin Tide
Halloween in Denver
After Halloween Slump (to be read on November 1st!)

If you’re in London, you absolutely MUST check out the new Brautigan Book Club being put together by saltpeter productions.

The idea is to have a face-to-face meeting each month, discuss a Brautigan & take it another (or 3) level by discussing how it relates to modern day or posting a ‘creative response’ to the Brautigan work (which will later be posted to their blog). They’re also looking to host salons or other events which include live music, readings, performances & indulgent 60′s revivalism.

The book club sessions begin January 25th 2012 in London. Sign up to their mailing list for updates & search #brautiganbookclub hashtag on twitter.

For those of you (like me!) who are not in London, they’re looking at ways for us to participate too! I can’t wait!