P O R T S M O U T H P O E T R Y S O C I E T Y 2016 – 2017
The Portsmouth Poetry Society meet at 7.15 – 9.30 on the first and third Wednesday of the month at St. Mark’s Church Hall, Derby Road, North End, Portsmouth. The following programme has been arranged for 2016 – 2017.
7th Sept: Free For All
21st Sept: AGM + the Poetry Competition results.
5th Oct: The poetry Esther Morgan – Bloodaxe poet.
19th Oct: Write a poem where you meet your younger self.
2nd Nov: Free For All.
16th Nov: The poetry of Tomas Transtromer – in translation.
7th Dec: A workshop writing rhyming poetry led by John Dean.
21 Dec: Christmas Party + poems by Spike Milligan. Venue TBA.
4th Jan: Free For All + poems on the theme of the sea.
18thJan: Views from a hill – write or find a poem.
1st Feb: The Poetry of Ted Kooser – American poet.
15thFeb: The Avant Garde Movement led by David Green.
1st Mar: Poems on the subject of hair. Find or write a poem.
15t Mar: Free For All and or Acrostic Poems.
5th Apr: Look into the drawer/cupboard/sideboard of a poet and find?
19thApr: Poems on the theme of gardens. Find or write.
3rd May: Poems inspired by film/music. Bring music if you can.
17th May: Poems inspired by a teashop. Find or write.
7th Jun: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney.
21st Jun: Outing – to be arranged.
5th Jul: Outing poems + Free For All.
19th Jul: Talking to an inanimate object eg: car/table/jug/spoon etc.
Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in poetry. You don’t have to write poetry to attend. A charge of £2.50 is made for casual members. Full members pay £45.00 per
year (this is paid £15.00 per term). For more details contact secretary Denise Bennett 023 9248 0577 or email denisebennett@talk21.com
David Green
- David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I published booklets of my own poems. The original allocation of ISBN numbers is used up now, though. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become, often more about music than books and not so often about poems. It will be about whatever suggests itself.
