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Poetry Reading Group

We are a small group which meets on the first Wednesday of each month in the afternoon in Lyme Regis to read and share our enjoyment of poems of all kinds from all periods. Poems gain so much when they’re read aloud.

Each month we have a chosen poet and everyone chooses one of their poems in advance. We also choose a second poem which is a free choice. At the meeting we take it in turns to introduce the chosen poet. Each of us then reads out their chosen poem. After some discussion, we then go around again and read out the free choice poems.

Recent poets include Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Frost and John Clare, but below is a list of some of  the poets we have read in our group over previous years.

The meeting concludes with tea and cake which we take it in turn to provide.

Do join us!
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Contact Kevin Benfield on 01297 446066 or email below


​At this time of isolation, half the Poetry Reading Group is continuing to submit poems as usual and then reading them in their own time in their own homes. Any U3A member with an interest in poetry is welcome to join us temporarily.
 

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Hilaire Beloc                                       
Shakespeare's Sonnets                      
Ogden Nash
Rudyard Kipling
John Donne
John Masefield
G K Chesterton
John Betjeman
A E Housman
Edward Thomas
Walter de la Mare
R S Thomas
Authorised Version of the Bible
Ted Hughes
Carole Anne Duffy
Sylvia Plath
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Kathleen Raine
Ezra Pound
Rainer Maria Rilke
John Clare
Robert Frost
Siegfried Sassoon
 Robert Frost
Lord Byron
Robert Graves
D H Lawrence
Rudyard Kipling
Some of the members of the Poetry Reading Group
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