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.
Here are the dates of our forthcoming meetings:
Thursday 21st June at St Mary's Church Centre (10.30am - 11.30am). Theme: Summertime.
Thursday 5th July at the Croft Tea Room (9.30am - 10.45am). Theme: Open.
Admission to our meetings at the Croft Tea Room: £5 for tea / coffee + cake.
Here are the dates of our forthcoming meetings:
Thursday 21st June at St Mary's Church Centre (10.30am - 11.30am). Theme: Summertime.
Thursday 5th July at the Croft Tea Room (9.30am - 10.45am). Theme: Open.
Admission to our meetings at the Croft Tea Room: £5 for tea / coffee + cake.
Poetry books on sale at the Croft Tea Room include Marvellous Dreams the new anthology of original art and poetry by members and friends of the Croft Poetry Club. You can also buy at the Croft Tea Room the poetry books by club members Beverley Gillard and Linda Needham.
Croft Poetry Club meeting 15th March 2018.
Our members enjoyed a most interesting and engaging meeting on theme of The Novelist as Poet. We heard mention - sometimes a surprising mention?! - of these famous novelists that also wrote poetry: Isaac Asimov, Iain Banks, Bronte sisters, Roald Dahl, Helen Dunmore, Ian Fleming, Robert Graves, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Primo Levi, Herman Melville, George Orwell, Edgar Allen Poe, Muriel Spark and John Updike. This is a topic that we plan to revisit later in 2018 because there are many poets and poems that we didn't have enough time to mention on 15th March. Photo: Thomas Hardy memorial, Dorchester. |
The Metaphor: Croft Poetry Club meetings in April and May 2018.
On theme of the metaphor, our members were led by Monica in a most enjoyable and instructive pair of meetings at St Mary's Church Centre. How to distinguish a simile from a metaphor? That little question on its own proved to be engaging. Perhaps it's true to say that in poetry and indeed in everyday speech, the simile is used much more often: the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind e.g. 'as brave as a lion'. The metaphor is different because it applies a name or descriptive term or phrase to an object or action to which is it is imaginatively but not literally applicable e.g. (as Shakespeare wrote) 'all the world's a stage'. And let's add here that a famous and much-enjoyed poem like 'The Road Less Travelled' (by Robert Frost) is an example of a 'sustained metaphor.' Members rose admirably to the challenge of composing a short poem that contained at least one metaphor. Many of us confessed that this was difficult ... or, at least, more difficult than we might have anticipated. But certainly it was a valuable, and fun, learning exercise. Thank you, Monica. Photo: Shakespeare statue, Leicester Square in London. |