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 19th April at St Mary's Church Centre (10.30am - 11.30am). Theme: The Metaphor.

Thursday 3rd May at the Croft Tea Room (9.30am - 10.45am). Theme: So Many Ways to Say 'Blue'.

Admission to our meetings at the Croft Tea Room: £5 for tea / coffee + cake.

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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.

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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.
 

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      Croft Poetry Club meeting 5th April 2018.

On theme of the English Village we heard poetry from John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Oliver Goldsmith, Henry Longfellow, Thomas Hood, Edward Thomas, R.S. Thomas ... and we met Milly Molly Mandy and we were recommended to study the remarkable paintings by the artist Stanley Spencer centered around the village of Cookham in Maidenhead.

Inventive as ever, our members also brought their own poetry compositions that included examples of quaint-sounding village names (some of which are not going to be displayed on this website!)

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