Poetry
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Poetry Group
The Group in its current form has been running for about eleven years. We hold ten meetings a year, with a one-month break in the summer and another at Christmas.
Meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of the month, from 10.30 am until 12.00.
Although several of our members write poetry, our main activity as a group is the reading and discussion of poems. We cover a wide range of work, with a bias towards modern and contemporary verse. We try to plan the program two or three months in advance, following members’ developing interests and curiosity. We are fortunate in having a number of members with the confidence and ability to lead a session, but there is no pressure upon everyone to do so, and we do have a number of collaborative sessions. We frequently use the internet to distribute poems, so that everyone has the opportunity to read and study them before we meet for discussion.
Following a break occasioned by the onset of Covid 19, we have covered the following topics, initially on Zoom:
- A compilation of Poems about Poetry (reading it, writing it)
- The work of Wendell Berry
- Michael Symmonds Roberts’ volume ‘Drysalter’
- Poems in contrasting pairs
- Emily Dickinson
- Poems about Love (a collaborative compilation)
- John Keats
- Hardy – the poems occasioned by the death of Emma
- Donne: members’ choice of poems
- Poems about Time
- Beatrice Garland
- ‘Home’: a compilation
- Jacob Polley’s collection ‘The Hazards’
Convener: Mary Johnstone, email is via the blue bird icon, on this page.