The Croft Poetry Club

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We are a welcoming and inclusive club with lots of enthusiasm for hearing, writing, studying and discussing poetry. 

At present we are holding fortnightly on-line meetings via Zoom on Thursday mornings at 10am. Please visit our Facebook page for further information.

​Photo: Poetry Recital at St Paul's Cray branch library, February 2020.
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The Croft Poetry Club on television! 4th October 2018.

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme: Foxbridge House in Green Street Green, Orpington invited members of the Croft Poetry Club to give a poetry recital to their residents on National Poetry Day 4th October 2018.

The event was filmed by ITV News London and was featured in their 6pm news broadcast the same day.

To see the film clip please go to our Croft Poetry Club Facebook page.
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     Our History

The Croft Poetry Club was founded in March 2014 at the invitation of Carol Wells the owner of the Croft Tea Room in St Mary Cray High Street.

We are still going strong and will hope to resume our full calendar of meetings and social events that are currently restricted by the lockdown.  Up till March 2020 our enthusiastic membership had enabled us to grow and maintain a continuous all-year-round programme of twice-monthly meetings and many extra activities and events. 

We have met or staged recitals at several local venues, including: Biggin Hill, Bromley, Chislehurst, Green Street Green, Mottingham, Orpington, Petts Wood, Sevenoaks, St Mary Cray and St Paul's Cray,  

We were invited to recite poetry of World War One at  All Saints Church, Orpington in 2014 and 2016.

Individual members have published collections of their own poetry and the club has published an annual anthology of original artwork and poetry by members and friends.

Thank you to everyone that has joined us at our meetings and activities. We hope that we will continue to enjoy poetry and friendship together for many more years to come.

Special thanks to Louis the owner of the Croft Tea Room and to all his staff who until the March 2020 lockdown kindly hosted our meetings every first Thursday morning of the month.