Notes from PS!2
2nd Poetry Slam! (19.2.2021) Notes
a romantic / Romantic session
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, WB Yeats (Marian Carroll)
https://interestingliterature.com/2015/11/a-short-analysis-of-yeatss-he-wishes-for-the-cloths-of-heaven/
I Carry your Heart, ee cummings (Rosie Walker)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in
The Good Morrow, John Donne (Alan Chacon)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44104/the-good-morrow
Thoughts on Love, ?? (Ann Sulston)
The Darling Letters, Carol Ann Duffy (Roz Watts)
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/carol-ann-duffy/
When you are Old, WB Yeats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43283/when-you-are-old
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, Christopher Marlowe (Mary Kitchen)
https://www.litcharts.com/poetry/christopher-marlowe/the-passionate-shepherd-to-his-love
On Comparing my Husband to Robbie Burns, Pam Ayres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkyyvZMrsJs
She Walks in Beauty, Byron (Heather Cresswell)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43844/she-walks-in-beauty
Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy
https://genius.com/Carol-ann-duffy-valentine-annotated
To Celia, Ben Johnson (Lesley Brain)
https://www.poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/song-to-celia/
we especially enjoyed Lesley giving us this twice, the second time as someone addressing a Celia with halitosis!
Shake Hands, AE Houseman
https://interestingliterature.com/2018/03/a-short-analysis-of-a-e-housmans-shake-hands-we-shall-never-be-friends-alls-over/
Scissors; Dog in the Playground, Allan Ahlberg (Anne Matthias)
https://childrens.poetryarchive.org/poem/scissors/
https://clpe.org.uk/poetryline/poems/dog-playground
Anne offered us a refreshing contrast at this stage of our rich fare
Ballad of the Londoner, James Elroy Flecker (David Carroll)
https://englishverse.com/poems/balladofthelondoner
The Cockney Amorist, John Betjeman
https://infinitepirate.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/john-betjemanthe-cockney-amorist/
Tribute to a Well-loved Dog (Ann Williams)
Soothing and Awful, UA Fanthorpe (Pattie Mitchell)
https://www.nationalpoetrylibrary.org.uk/online-poetry/poems/soothing-and-awful
Another invigorating change of focus!
When we Two Parted, Byron (Bridget Berrecloth)
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lordbyron%20/poems/5966
Jenny ??
Not You Basil, Pam Ayres (Terry Matthias)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvqltkGvAgY
Sea Fever, John Masefield (Sylvia Martin)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54932/sea-fever-56d235e0d871e
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree