All meetings take place on Saturdays 11am-1pm unless otherwise indicated. Venue: Room A, Bebington Central Library, Wirral.
2010
17th July – poems from regulars/guest poet plus book sale
19th June – no meeting – postponed til July due to Poetry School Garden Party (all welcome, contact us for details)
15th May – Desert Island Poems
17th April – Love That Dog: the book and connected poems (facilitated by Lesley Johnson)
20th March – Yellow: bring a poem on the theme
20th February – Love: poems by 8 contemporary women poets
16th January – Snow: poems by Bai Juyi, Michael Longley, Edward Thomas, Louis MacNeice, Thomas Lux and Billy Collins
2009
19th December – Gifts: readers bring a poem they would dedicate to someone they know or have known
21st November – Autumn & Winter: two poets who became established later in life, U. A. Fanthorpe & Joseph Pacheco
24th October – Heroes & Heroines: group members bring poems by new poets who they feel are in some way poetically heroic, or significant in their lives. Details will be updated shortly. (NB this date is the fourth Saturday, a departure from our usual third, due to a clash in dates with Chester Oyez and Wirral Bookfest.)
19 September – Accounts: poems by Penelope Shuttle, Matthew Hollis, Aileen La Tourette & Mike Barlow
20 June – Book Sale + Poems from group members: Fay Eagle, Dave McNeill, Charles Hughes, Malcolm Henry, Lesley Johnson & Janine Pinion, plus poems from the lives of Afghan women poets (introduced by Julie Henry)
16 May – Sylvia Plath (introduced by Gill McEvoy)
18 April – Who’s Next? Poet Laureate Discussion (facilitated by Charles Hughes)
21 March – Straight From The Horse’s Mouth: recorded poetry
21 Feb – Modern Welsh Poets (introduced by Kate Muir)
17 Jan – New Year Connections: poems brought by readers on the theme
2008
20 Dec – Poetry Bran Tub: love it or hate it – comment on your surprise poem
15 Nov – Poetry in Translation (introduced by Malcolm Henry)
25 Oct – Songwriters As Poets
20 Sept – Sound of Silence: poems from WS Graham, Carol Satyamurti, Sharon Olds & Tim Turnbull
21 June – Poems from Charles Hughes, Fay Eagle, Carol Falaki & Janine Pinion
24 May – The Imagists
26 April – poems remembered from school
15 March – Underwear: poems from Jacob Polley, Jane Holland, Sharon Olds & Michael Longley
16 Feb – Poems We Dislike (brought by members)
19 Jan – Sailing: poems from Norman Nicholson, Jane Routh, Alice Oswald & Matthew Hollis
2007
15 Dec – members bring a favourite poem
17 Nov – The Beast Within: poems from Polly Clark, Jo Shapcott, Galway Kinnell & Adrian Mitchell
20 Oct – Sonnets from Mimi Khalvati, Ian Duhig, Elizabeth Bishop & Tony Harrison
