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Tower and Fountain: June 2011

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, June 5, 2011. This afternoon’s meeting began with and example (in translation) of probably the oldest poet we have encountered so far as we heard one of Horace’s Odes. Luke Wright’s amusing lesson on time management: ‘ When Instant Coffee Just Isn’t Enough’. Seamus Heaney’s ‘ Death of a Naturalist’. Roald Dahl’s version of ‘ Little Red Riding Hood. Opinion, mostly detrim...

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Tower and Fountain: Tower and Fountain 2- First Thursday of the Month

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Tower and Fountain 2- First Thursday of the Month. Tower and Fountain 2. This webpage is specifically for the new poetry reading group. Poetry 2) which will be meeting on the first Thursday of each month from 2.15 to 3.45 in the Central Library. Poems brought for discussion should be either (1) no more than 20 lines long. This is not a writing group. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Tower and Fountain: January 2012

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, January 8, 2012. Our topic for February will be ‘Offspring’. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Tower and Fountain 2- First Thursday of the Month. Monday, May 26, 2008. Welcome to Tower and Fountain. To find out more about this Poetry Group email Dr. Lynn Forest-Hill. Lynnevda AT clara DOT co DOT uk. See below for more details. From Oct 2006 to June 2011 - 57 meetings. December...

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Tower and Fountain: December 2011

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, December 11, 2011. Matthew Arnold’s famous and beautiful Dover Beach was less difficult, as was the short ‘Journey’ by William Orange, while Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The White Ship’ provided an easily assimilated narrative before we were plunged into the complexities of H.D.’s ‘Helen in Egypt’ from. Book III. A stimulating afternoon all round. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Tower and Fountain: December meeting

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, December 11, 2011. Matthew Arnold’s famous and beautiful Dover Beach was less difficult, as was the short ‘Journey’ by William Orange, while Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘The White Ship’ provided an easily assimilated narrative before we were plunged into the complexities of H.D.’s ‘Helen in Egypt’ from. Book III. A stimulating afternoon all round. Monday, May 26, 2008.

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Tower and Fountain: August 2011

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, August 7, 2011. Firstly, apologies for the lateness of this blog report on our July meeting, and secondly, apologies that August had to be cancelled owing to illness. By the time we get to September we may all need to look back and recall what we did in July, so here is the selection of our poems on Love. September's topic will be Free Choice. Held over from August.

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Tower and Fountain: April Meeting

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, April 8, 2012. We were on easier ground with Anne Stevenson’s ‘Who’s Joking with the Photographer? 8217; We all enjoyed the honest and finely rendered impression of a woman confronting depictions of her aging face. We ended with further controversy with another Stephen Dobyn’s poem ‘Where We Are’. Not ostensibly about a picture, it takes Bede’...Monday, May 26, 2008.

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Tower and Fountain: March Meeting

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, March 4, 2012. March was being a lamb for this meeting, before turning into a polar bear! But we began by looking back to earlier meetings when we were looking at Carol Rumens’ sestina. The form itself caused much interest but we had not considered its origins. They are:. On to our poems for the afternoon. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Monday, May 26, 2008. Most re...

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Tower and Fountain: February Meeting

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Have you read a poem you love? Are you bursting to share your thoughts on poems and poetry? Sign up, sign in and start sharing. Sunday, February 5, 2012. We began with a poem we had a few weeks ago: Carol Rumens’ ‘Rules for Beginners’. Turned out to be an uncomfortable read, moving as it does from heroism to brutality and uncertainty. A short poem illustrating maybe why Gillain Clarke is the Welsh poet laureate. Adrian Henri’s ‘Mrs Albion You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter: For Allen ...About her troubled rela...