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unless otherwise stated Visitors welcome £2 : Members £1 Convenor: Janet Cunliffe-Jones DIARY 2008 Aim: to read, explore, discuss and celebrate poetry from a wide range of periods and styles. Next Event: Wednesday April 23rd New Poetry: Dave Skidmore, member of the Poetry Book Society, leads a discussion of "Domestic Violence" by Eavan Boland. The book is more subtle and attractive than the title might suggest. Copies of poems for discussion will be made available. The Poetry Group was launched in autumn 2003, since when we have had: Talks on poets: John Donne, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Byron, Edward Thomas,Elizabeth Bishop, Edna St Vincent Millay, W H Auden, Louis MacNeice and others Rehearsed Readings: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Wendy Cope's The River Girl, Shakespeare's Sonnets, selections from John Betjeman and Auden. Discussion Topics: Colour in poetry; performance poetry, Faith and Doubt, as seen in Dante, Shelley, Tennyson and others, and new works by Jacob Polley and Charles Simic. We hope to continue with a similar mix of traditional and modern work, talks and readings. We always welcome questions, participation and discussion. (June 2007) Janet Cunliffe-Jones Janet Cunliffe-Jones
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