Fifteen people attended this meeting and came ready with two poems each, the second being a shorter one for the last part of the meeting. Sometimes members take the opportunity to read from a favourite poet but just as often it may be something they’ve come across recently. Poems from different eras and nations were read, one written by one member but read by another as there is a bar on reading our own work. This is especially the case as we have a Writers’ Group for sharing of our own poems. Here is the list for this meeting.
Reader Poem Title Poet
Ann Barlow Hymn to Birds Kei Miller
Members of the Public Nick Ashby
Diane Chorley Go and open the door Miroslav Holub
Sometimes Sheenagh Pugh
Liz Maliphant A poem for Epiphany John Heath Stubbs
Th New Year’s Gift Robert Herrick
Foster Murphy The Race Fiona Moore
The Sceptic Robert Service
Christine Pope The Peace Of Wild Things Wendell Berry
Day after Boxing Day Paul Cookson
Adele Radelat The Frog in the Swimming Pool Deborah Gregor
The Duck Ogden Nash
Mavis Robinson from ‘Sabbath’ Wendell Berry
Recitative by Death W.H. Auden
Loraine Saacks Mayflower Matrons No. 7 Andrew Creasey
Hope Frederick von Schiller
Ruth Smith A Portable Paradise Roger Robinson
Squirrel heights Peter Daniels
Anne Stewart Answer to a verse by Mr. A. Pope Countess Ann of Winchelsea
The Rudiments of Musical Knowledge Jane Sharp
Anne Stooke Washing Day Monday morning 1966 Dawn Bauling
Late Love Jackie Kay
Nola Turner Jam Market Diana Sanders
Triolet for a sycamore Ruth Kelsey
Paul Norris On the Death of my first Daughter Ben Jonson
On the Death of my first Son
Michael Bobbs The Garden Andrew Marvell
A little East of Jordan Emily Dickinson
Christina Webster The Caterpillar Guillame Apollinaire
A Woman Writer doing her Washing Anna Swirszczynsk