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.
Here you will be able to find details of poems presented at each meeting. All meetings will, for the time being at least be 'free choice'.
Poems brought for discussion should be either (1) no more than 20 lines long, or (2) or extracts of no more than 20 lines from longer poems.
You do not need to know anything about poetry to join us. Discussions will be informal. The emphasis will be on enjoying poetry.
This is not a writing group.
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WELCOME
Monday, May 26, 2008
Welcome to Tower and Fountain
Diane
Thank are due to Diane for setting up this blog. It is a great asset for anyone who cannot get to a meeting but has comments or a poem they would like to share, and for anyone who is interested in joining or following the group.
Lynn
Welcome to Tower and Fountain
Diane
Thank are due to Diane for setting up this blog. It is a great asset for anyone who cannot get to a meeting but has comments or a poem they would like to share, and for anyone who is interested in joining or following the group.
Lynn
Contact address
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
lynnevda AT clara DOT co DOT uk
See below for more details
Poetry Group Stats
- Recorded by Sandy
- From Oct 2006 to June 2011 - 57 meetings
- No. of poems read = 395 (no records for 2 months)
- Most read poets - W.B. Yeats: 9 poems and Rudyard Kipling: 9 poems
- Carol Ann Duffy - 8 poems
- John Betjamen, U.A. Fanthorpe and Seamus Heaney - 7 poems each
- D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Roger Mc Gough, and Ted Hughes - 6 poems each
- Longer discussions on - haiku, metre, The Rolling English Road (G.K. Chesterton), Oulipu, Found Poetry, and the meaning and Complexity of the word 'love' and its uses
Dates and topics: some topics have run over 2 months
- February 2010 'D' poems
- January 2010 Free Choice
- December 2009 Christmas
- May 2009 America
- February 2009 Winter
- January 2009 Free choice
- 6th December 2008 Parodies
- 8th November 2008 Free choice
- 23rd October 2008 Gold
- 2nd August 2008 Haiku
- 7th June 2008
- 7th April 2008 free choice
- 7th March 2008 Emotions
- January 2008 The Sea
- December 2007 Free choice
- November 2006 Spring
- October 2006
Poems discussed
- January 2010 Percy Shelley, ‘The Cloud’; John Donne ‘Song’; Rudyard Kipling ‘The Way Through the Woods’; Ralph Hodgson’s ‘Eve’; Ted Hughes ‘The Thought-Fox’, and ‘Crow’s Nerve Fails’; Simon Armitage ‘About his Person’; Tony Harrison’ ‘First Aid in English’.
- November 2006 Spring: 'Where to look' ,Sophie Hannah; 'West Wind', John Masefield, 'Between Meanings', Blooming; 'Loveliest of Trees', A.E.Housman; Song of Songs; 'Spring Song', John Dressel; 'Snowdrop', Ted Hughes; '4pm Spring Day' Greek poet (1936); 'Spring Poem' (flower shape) J.T Mori; 'Spring', T.Nash; 'To the Tune of Annie Laurie', John Betjeman; Verses from The Song of Soloman-King James’s Bible.
- October 2006: Emily Dickinson 'Hope is a thing with Feathers'; John Masefield, 'Cargoes', Frederic Prokosch 'Dolls', A. E. Housman, 'Autumn Poem'
Poetry Links: read, and hear poets reading their own work
Suggestions for topics
- Group study of a single poet of 18th/19th century
- Poems of the first Romantics
- The poems of W.B. Yeats
- Cat poems
Other poetry events
- For courses, events and all things relating to HAIKU see http://area17.blogspot.com/
- National Poetry Day 8th Oct 2009
- Tower and Fountain: a 'slim volume' of members poems.
- Issue 3 is out now, issue 4 forthcoming in November subject to having sufficient submissions. Poems may be submitted by email to lynnevda AT clara DOT co DOT uk
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Lynn Forest-Hill
With thanks to Sandy for taking on all the admin and Diane for setting up the blog.
Dr. Lynn Forest-Hill is a fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton, and runs short introductory courses in English literature, drama, and poetry which are hosted by the Central Library Southampton.
see http://lfhdramandmedievalism.blogspot.com/
http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/research/fellows.html
Dr. Lynn Forest-Hill is a fellow of the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Culture at the University of Southampton, and runs short introductory courses in English literature, drama, and poetry which are hosted by the Central Library Southampton.
see http://lfhdramandmedievalism.blogspot.com/
http://www.soton.ac.uk/cmrc/research/fellows.html