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POETRY Group
Diary 2009

Visitors welcome £2 : Members £1

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CONVENOR:
Janet Cunliffe-Jones

POETRY GROUP PROGAMME 2009 All meetings start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise stated Visitors welcome at all events
Wed 28 January	Party for Burns’ 250 Anniversary. Songs and music etc.
Wed 25 February N.B. 2.30pm	Readings from Tennyson	Poetry Group Members
Wed 26 March	*New Poetry Readings and discussions of Collected Poems* by Michael Longley**	Led by David Skidmore, a member of Poetry Book Society
Wed 22 April	Readings from Seamus Heaney to celebrate his 70th birthday
Wed 20 May	Early reactions to Darwin: satire, scandal, and poetry	Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Darwin and Beyond programme)
Wed 24 June	Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel (1681); a satire on contemporary politics.	Gavin Turner
Wed 22 July	Venice in Poetry - Readings	Organised by Sue Boyle (Poetry Café)
AUGUST	NO MEETING
Wed 24 September	(6-7pm) Event arranged with Kidslitfest (TBA) (7.30pm) Readings of Poetry for children by members etc.
Wed 28 October	Tennyson Centenary Lecture - Tennyson’s In Memoriam: Personal Elegy and the Sprit of the Age	Dr. Britta Martens UWE
Wed 25 November N.B. 2.30pm	Keats in Italy	Debbie James, Herschel Museum
December	NO MEETING
CONVENOR: Janet Cunliffe-Jones