Meeting Of September 10th 2019

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Ann Barlow           A Dream                                            Bandi (anonymous)
Common Grounds                             Kathleen Gallagher

Diane Chorley     A Song of Wandering Aengus          W.B. Yeats
Friends                                                 Elizabeth Jennings

Jean Ellis               The Horses                                          Edwin Muir
September Evening                              John Burnside

Monica King       The Stethoscope                                  Dannie Abse
These are the Hands                          Michael Rosen

Jan Ottley           Gardener                                                Robert Graves
The Lonely Letters                                W.H. Auden

Christine Pope  Consumer Complaint                        C. Marjorie Smith
The Royal Opera House                      Michael Shan

Mavis Robinson    Corinna’s Going A-Maying            Robert Herrick
Caged Birds                                     India Russell

Loraine Saacks     From ‘ September 1st. 1939’           W. H. Auden
Advice For Winston                         Tom Merrill

Ruth Smith             Thank You for Waiting                  Simon Armitage
The Steps                                           Liz Berry

Anne Stewart          The Memory Hall                           Meryn Williams
After Sonnet 64 Shakespeare       Jean Watkins

Anne Stooke            A Hillpost in India J.                        Milton Hayes
Eternity                                            William Blake

Nola Turner             Forefathers                                 Edmund Blunden
King Lear Act 4 Sc. 6                  W. Shakespeare

Foster Murphy       Rain                                               Edward Thomas
A Marriage                                    R S Thomas

Michael Bobb         Christabel                                      Samuel Coleridge
The Bards                                      Walter de la Mare

Christina              On a cellar, apples and poets           Anna Friley
My Ear Atends To You                     Maria Tsvetaeva

Meeting of Sept. 24th 2019

Meeting of Sept. 24th.

Twelve members attended the meeting with the addition of two guests who we hope will become members. We were reading poems by two Irish poets – Paul Muldoon and Matthew Sweeney, who sadly died last year from motor neurone disease. Paul Muldoon comes from County Armagh, Northern Ireland and now lives in the United States. Matthew Sweeney was born in County Donegal and lived in London, Berlin and Timisoara for different parts of his life. When Matthew died he was living in Cork.

Ann Barlow and later Ruth Smith gave further details of both poets and, as it turned out ,the number of poems read were pretty much evenly divided between the two poets so we had a good flavour of each. People plainly enjoyed the work of both poets and will very likely come return to them for a pleasurable read..

Autumn Programme 2019

As usual meeting are held at Ripley Arts Centre, 24 Sunbridge Avenue, Bromley, BR1 2PX on Tuesdays at 2.30pm. Visitors are welcome – £2 entry – 50p refreshments.

Writers Group (dates to be agreed by writers)

Sept – Open Choice
Oct – Escape
Nov – A Lull in Birdsong
Dec – Silver lining

Diary dates for the spring term 2020

14th & 28th Jan – 11th & 25th Feb – 10th& 24th Mar