Event overview
An informal opportunity to get acquainted with contemporary poetry.
The next meeting of the Poetry Reading Group will be on Wednesday, 21 October, at 1pm in room RHB 220. We'll be talking about Kathleen Jamie's collection 'The Treehouse'.
The group, for those of you haven't come across us before, is designed as an informal opportunity to get acquainted with contemporary poetry. Round about once a month, we meet over lunchtime, usually with sandwiches or cups of coffee in hand, and discuss a book that one of us has nominated. The person who picked the book gives us a short introduction to it, and reads a couple of the poems that have particularly struck them - and then we chat, trying our best to avoid the nervous atmosphere that often seems to cling to poetry-reading.
This is *not* an educational hoop to jump through. It's just a conversation in ordinary language, honest about what seems to us to work or not to work in what we look at. We absolutely assume that it's legitimate to dislike things, or to find them obscure. We're reading for pleasure, so critical performance anxieties can be checked at the door. Over time, our meandering path from book to book brings us to work we wouldn't have thought of looking at, individually, and painlessly expands our sense of current practice.
So do join us; and please email Francis Spufford at f.spufford@gold.ac.uk to be added to the list for announcements of later meetings.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Oct 2009 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm |
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