This month our topic was Beginnings. As usual we enjoyed a wide and varied selection of poems. They were William's Blake's deceptively simple 'Lamb', 'New Every Morning' by Susan Coleman, an untitled poem by Simon Armitage that caused a good deal of debate; Walt Whitman's enormously long 'I Sing the Body Electric' - we only had time for the first and last sections. Amy Clampitt's meditative 'Beach Glass', Edwin Muir's post-apocalyptic 'The Horses'; the very appropriate 'Rainy Summer' by Alice Meynell, and taking the topic literally - Caedmon's Hymn, said to be the very first English poem.
September will be Free Choice
Saturday, August 15, 2009
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