Reading List December 11th 2018

Ann Barlow	Jane’s Pearls	Alicia Stubbersfield
	from Essay On Man Epistle 2	Alexande Pope
Diane Chorley	Overheard On A Salt Marsh	Carol Munro
	Christmas	John Betjeman
Jean Ellis	How To Cut A Pomegranate	Imtiaz Dharker
	Perumptermanger	Classical Tamil poet
Janr Knight	The Runed Maid	Thomas Hardy
	Inventory	Sheena Ough
Patsy Paine	Warming her Pearls	Carol Ann Duffy
	Anthony and Cleo. The barge she sat in	W. Shakespeare
Christine Pope	Change At Christmas Time	Elizabeth Bewick
	His Mother’s Weding Song	George Crabbe
Adele Radelat	Song Of The Wandering Angeus	W.B.Yeats
	A Birthday	Christina Rossetti
Mavis Robinson	Keys Of Canterbury	Traditional
	The Diamond Cutter	Elizabeth Jennings
Loraine Saacks	Wearing Medals On Their Chests	Mark Heathcote
	Medals Ourweigh Life	Shell Silverstein
Ruth Smith	December	Susannah Hart
	Edwardian Baubles	Noel King
Anne Stewart	Trio	Edwin Morgan
	Hector The Collecter	Shell Silverstein
Nola Turner	Chessboard	Clare Booker
	The Magic Box	Kit Bright
Jan Ottley	How I’ll Decorate My Tree	Liz Lockhead
	The Christmas Tree	Rick Wilkinson

 

Full Moon: A Night of Poetry and Science

Full Moon: A Night of Poetry and Science

On Thursday 6th December 2018, 7pm, The Shaw Theatre, London. £12. To celebrate 20 years of Poetry Live and 10 years of Science Live, we are holding a unique event, bringing together the most celebrated names in poetry and science, featuring Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Winston, Simon Armitage, Jim Al-Khalili, John Agard, Alice Roberts, Imtiaz Dharker, Steve Jones and many more. Proceeds to Macmillan Cancer Support.

Nola Turner and Ruth Smith attended this very enjoyable event at the Shaw Theatre, enjoying the poetry and being fascinated by the science.

 

Meeting of Dec. 11th 2018

The theme of the meeting was ‘Baubles, Bangles and Beads’ which members interpreted in their own way giving rise to poems like Carol Ann Duffy’s ‘Warming Her Pearls’ to Liz Lockhead’s ‘How I’ll Decorate My Tree’ and Adele Radelat, our hostess for the day, did us proud with an array of Christmas goodies to have with our tea.

Sadly for us. it was Patsy Paine’s last meeting as she and her husband John are moving away from Bromley to live close to their daughter in Princes Risborough at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. Patsy has been a member of the Shortlands Poetry Circle for 30 years and we will miss her calm presence and her obvious delight in poetry. John will be missed as well a he is well known for lending a hand at our functions, having washed up. served wine and offered his calligraphy skills at Ripley’s annual Garden Party.