a selection of the most recent readings
25th January 2012 AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, DEANSGATE
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| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| ROD WHITWORTH | IN THE BEGINNING (20 BILLION BC) from PLANET WAVE | Edwin Morgan |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | DIARY MOON | Paul Farley |
| DOLORES YOUNG | WIND | Ted Hughes |
| JEAN YVRES RAULIC | THE FISHERMAN | W.B.Yeats |
| FOKKINA MCDONNELL | HAPPINESS | Robert Hass |
| PETER COPPING | RELATIONSHIP DOLLS | Caroline bird |
| JOHN REED | THERE IS NO GOD | Arthur Hugh Clough |
| JULIE JARMAN | THE FORGE | Seamus Heaney |
| GAETANA TIPPETTI | ORGREAVE | Frances Presley |
| DOLORES LONG | HAWK ROOSTING | Ted Hughes |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | STILL I RISE | Maya Angelou |
| ANDY N | A WINTER'S NIGHT | Gary Morris |
| SHEILA WILD | PRODIGAL | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ANDY N | EMBARASSING GROWN UPS | Paul Cookson |
| ROD WHITWORTH | IN THE CAVE 30,000 BC | Edwin Morgan |
| JEAN YVRES RAULIC | FRIENDS | W.B.Yeats |
| JOHN REED | TROUBLE | A.E.Housman |
20th December 2011 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | INNOCENT'S SONG | Charles Causley |
| LORRAINE COOK | CHRISTMAS EVE | Carolyn Oulton |
| JENNIE CLARKE | THE BOY WHO LAUGHED AT SANTA CLAUS | Ogden Nash |
| ALAN STAFFORD | SNOWFLAKES | Clive Sansom |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | A CHRISTMAS CAROL | George Wither |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | EMMONSAIL'S HEATH IN WINTER | John Clare |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | THE MAGI | W.B.Yeats |
| JO ROBERTS | TIME, GENTELMEN, TIME | St John Gogarty |
| ALISON MYERS | KINGFISHER | Peter Scupham |
| SYBIL DAVIES | I AM JOSEPH | UA Fanthorpe |
| ANN DAVENPORT | A CUP OF TEA | Anon |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | THE INNKEEPER'S TALE | Ruth Scott |
| BEL WALKER | SILENT NIGHT | Ellen Reed |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | SOMEWHERE AROUND CHRISTMAS | John Smith |
| SERIN TURRAL | from STRUWWELPETER'S AUGUSTUS | Heinrich Hoffmann |
14th December 2011 THE OXFAM BOOKSHOP,TURNHAM GREEN , LONDON W4
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| MARGARET PICKFORD | TALKING TURKEYS | Benjamin Zephaniah |
| COLIN PARSLEY | WHAT DOES YOUR FATHER DO? | Roger McGough |
| DAWN BRANDL | 19TH CHRISTMAS POEM | Wendy Cope |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | FROST AT MIDNIGHT | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| KATHY HALL | WINTER | William Shakespeare |
| PAUL WILLIAMSON | IN FLANDERS FIELDS | John McCrae |
| ANNE FARTHING | UNDER MILK WOOD | Dylan thomas |
| CHRIS THOMAS & JOE JOHN | THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS | Betty Ann Cassanorn |
| SARAH HEIMENDORF | THOU ART THE SKY | Rabindranath Tagore |
| JOANNA FARRER | EVERYONE SANG | Siegfried Sassoon |
| GEOFF HIRST | BE MY PASSING | W.E.Henley |
| SUSAN STANLEY-CARROLL | HANG UP THE BABY'S STOCKING | Unknown |
| CLARE WILLIAMSON | ON THE TWELTH DAY OF CHRISTMAS I SCREAMED | David Daiches |
| RACKER DONNELLY | CURL UP AND DIET | Ogden Nash |
1st December 2011 THE LIBRARY, SHEEN LANE CENTRE, RICHMOND, SURREY
The winter reading of the Sheen and Richmond group was hosted by the brilliant library manager at
Sheen, Jeremy Preston, and organised by Kathy Philpot and Adrienne Jack. Over 50 people attended and
read a varied selection of poems . Bernard Adams kindly acted as the compere. Pass On A Poem is greatly
indebted to public libraries and library managers. Their hospitality to community groups such as ours is
a lifeline for local cultural activities.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BERNARD ADAMS | BALLAD OF THE BREAD MAN | Charles Causley |
| TOM STANIER | DEATH IS TO ME TODAY | Anon |
| JEREMY PRESTON | THE CHRISTMS TREE | Patricia Beer |
| IONA SMITH | LONDON SNOW | Robert Bridges |
| SHIONA LLEWELLYN | MATILDA | Hilaire Belloc |
| RICHARD RICKFORD | CINDERS | Roger McGough |
| JOY CATFORD | FATHER WILLIAM | Lewis Carroll |
| NANCY WILLIAMS | THE YEAR WE MARRIED BIRDS | Louise Barry |
| MONA ADAMS | NEIGHBOURS | Nancy Williams |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | from BURNT NORTON | T.S.Eliot |
| ANNE BLAKE | COLLECTIVE NOUNS | Roy Lockett |
| MIKE SMITH | DIARY OF A CHURCH MOUSE | John Betjeman |
| SALLY HAMWEE | COWARD | James Jeffery |
| WILLIAM MACINTYRE | THE WOMEN TO THE MEN RETURNED | Margaret Sackville |
| PAT TILLEY | CHRISTMAS TREES | Rober Frost |
| ANDREW CALDER | SONNET XIV from SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| PATSY PIESSE | TO THE EVENING STAR | William Blake |
| DAVID MASSA | FRUTTA DE MARE | Geoffrey Scott |
| TIM CATCHPOLE | next to god of course | ee cummings |
| ADRIENNE JACK | MRS DARWIN | Carol Ann Duffy |
25th November 2011 THE ROCKET PUB, CHURCHFIELD RD, LONDON W3
Scott Gronmark, a reader, writes: Pass On A Poem is wonderful. You get to hear stuff you haven't heard
before, read by people who love it. You get to hear old favourites reinterpreted, which makes you think
about them afresh. And reading a poem aloud helps you understand what the poet was trying to do and
how they achieve their effects.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JUDITH ELLIOTT | THE SALUTATION | Thomas Traherne |
| TIM SANDERSON | NOVEMBER | Ogden Nash |
| JANET SAUNDERS | INK STAIN | Jamie McKendrick |
| BRIAN DURRANS | THE TWO OLD BACHELORS | Edward Lear |
| DEHRA MITCHELL | THE POETRY GAME | Charles Bukowski |
| ALEX VOLOSSEVICH | THE BOX | Kendrew Lascelles |
| PAUL VINCENT | LEGEND OF THE ORIGIN OF THE BOOK OF TAO TE CHING.... | Bertolt Brecht |
| CHRISTINE PEARCE | ANNA BLOOM | Kurt Schwitters |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | GALOSHES | Paul Jennings |
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | RISING FIVE | Norman Nicholson |
| CHARLIE MAWER | BEENY CLIFF | Thomas Hardy |
| SHEILA TIFFANY | A POEM, ON THE SUPPOSITION OF AN ADVERTISEMENT.... | Elizabeth Hands |
| BRIAN LOONEY | SONNET 64 | William Shakespeare |
| ALAN KENT | A CHILDHOOD MEMORY | Antonio Machado |
| ANNIE HENRY | NOONE SO MUCH AS YOU | Edward Thomas |
| CATHERINE MCCARTHY | SATURDAY NIGHT | Victoria Wood |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | from LEPANTO | G.K.Chesterton |
| ROZ SANDERSON | CURTAINS | Matt Harvey |
| MURRAY PORTER | WHAT THE DOCTOR SAID | Raymond Carver |
| NICOLA MANSFIELD | THE CARAVAN | Clare Pollard |
| PETER WATKINS | CHRIST CLIMBED DOWN | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ANNE WILSON | ACHILLES | Carol Ann Duffy |
| NICK JONES | THE BOY WHO LAUGHED AT SANTA CLAUS | Ogden Nash |
1st December 2011 THE LIBRARY, SHEEN LANE CENTRE, RICHMOND, SURREY
The winter reading of the Sheen and Richmond group was hosted by the brilliant libary manager at
Sheen, Jeremy Preston, and organised by Kathy Philpot and Adrienne Jack. Over 50 people attended and
read a varied selection of poems . Bernard Adams kindly acted as the compere. Pass On A Poem is greatly
indebted to public libraries and library managers. Their hospitality to community groups such as ours is
a lifeline for local cultural activities.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BERNARD ADAMS | BALLAD OF THE BREAD MAN | Charles Causley |
| TOM STANIER | DEATH IS TO ME TODAY | Anon |
| JEREMY PRESTON | THE CHRISTMS TREE | Patricia Beer |
| IONA SMITH | LONDON SNOW | Robert Bridges |
| SHIONA LLEWELLYN | MATILDA | Hilaire Belloc |
| RICHARD RICKFORD | CINDERS | Roger McGough |
| JOY CATFORD | FATHER WILLIAM | Lewis Carroll |
| NANCY WILLIAMS | THE YEAR WE MARRIED BIRDS | Louise Barry |
| MONA ADAMS | NEIGHBOURS | Nancy Williams |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | from BURNT NORTON | T.S.Eliot |
| ANNE BLAKE | COLLECTIVE NOUNS | Roy Lockett |
| MIKE SMITH | DIARY OF A CHURCH MOUSE | John Betjeman |
| SALLY HAMWEE | COWARD | James Jeffery |
| WILLIAM MACINTYRE | THE WOMEN TO THE MEN RETURNED | Margaret Sackville |
| PAT TILLEY | CHRISTMAS TREES | Rober Frost |
| ANDREW CALDER | SONNET XIV from SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| PATSY PIESSE | TO THE EVENING STAR | William Blake |
| DAVID MASSA | FRUTTA DE MARE | Geoffrey Scott |
| TIM CATCHPOLE | next to god of course | ee cummings |
| ADRIENNE JACK | MRS DARWIN | Carol Ann Duffy |
1st November 2011 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
This is the indefatigable Bedford venue, whose readers meet monthly.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | DUNKIRK | Robert Nathan |
| LORRAINE COOK | A SQUARE DANCE | Roger McGough |
| JENNIE CLARKE | THOSE WHO WERE TRULY GREAT | Stephen Spender |
| ALAN STAFFORD | IF I COULD BE A SUPER HERO | Steve Lazarowitz |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | NOT TO KEEP | Robert Frost |
| JO ROBERTS | CASABIANCA | Felicia Dorothea Hemans |
| ALISON MYERS | BREAKFAST | Wilfred Gibson |
| ANN DAVENPORT | THE SOLDIER | Rupert Brooke |
| BEL WALKER | WHO MADE THE LAW | Leslie Coulson |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | STRANGE MEETING | Wilfred Owen |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | DIGGING | Seamus Heaney |
| SERIN TURRAL | EVE OF BATTLE SPEECH | Tim Collins |
27th OCTOBER 2011 The Library, Oswestry, Shropshire
This was the second reading in Oswestry, kindly and jointlyorganised and hosted by Heather Rodenhurst,
TeamLibrarian at the beautiful new library in Oswestry, and by Carrie Morris of Booka Bookshop, the
very special independent bookshop that serves the town, which hosts numerous interesting literaryevents.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| DENNIS EDWARDS | WHAT THE CHAIRMAN TOLD TOM | Basil Bunting |
| GWYNETH WINTER | THE CHILD ALONE | Rosamund Marriot Watson |
| DEREK WINTER | OZYMANDIAS | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| MARION WINTER | THE NIGHT TRAIN | W.H.Auden |
| CHARLES STYLES | SONNET 75 | Edmund Spenser |
| HEATHER RODENHURST | MR TEODORO LUNA'S TWO KISSES | Heather Rodenhurst |
| JILL REES-JONES | THE SNAKE | D.H.Lawrence |
| FLEUR COLLINS | A FLORIDA NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS | Anon |
| MARION YOUNG | TO THE VIRGINS TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME | Robert Herrick |
| LINDA RIX | INVICTUS | W.E.Henley |
| CARRIE MORRIS | MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED, RED ROSE | Robert Burns |
| PAULINE HUTCHINSON | THE SAD TALE OF A MOTOR FAN | H.A.Field |
| HELEN SHARMAN | BUT | Paul Coltman |
| DEREK WILLIAMS | MOTHERLODE | Alan Kent |
| HEATHER RODENHURST | SOMETIMES | Sheenagh Pugh |
| IAN COLLINGS | IF | Rudyard Kipling |
| DEREK WINTER | THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN | William Cowper |
| HELEN SHARMAN | TINNED FRUIT AND EVAPORATED MILK | Henry Normal |
12th OCTOBER 2011 ELGIN CRESCENT, NOTTING HILL, LONDON W11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| KARINE CRABBE | ODE TO AUTUMN | John Keats |
| MIKE MORRIS | from CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE | Lord Byron |
| ANNIE HENRY | LAY YOUR SLEEPING HEAD | W.H.Auden |
| MARY LU BAKKER | A DRINK OF WATER | Seamus Heaney |
| PETER WATKINS | DOGGEREL BY A SENIOR CITIZEN | W.H.Auden |
| ANNE BARNES | THE RIGHT WORD | Imtiaz Dharker |
| DEREK SHIEL | INTO BATTLE | Julian Grenfell |
| JO SANDERS | MOTHER TONGUE | Gwyneth Lewis |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELL | SEVEN | Joszsef Attila |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | BURNT NORTON II from FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| KATHRYN SUMNER | THE PROLOGUE from HENRY V | William Shakespeare |
| JOHN HENRY | BACK TO GLENBRITTLE | Colin Will |
| JANE DARWIN | MR BLEANEY | Philip Larkin |
| PATRICK HARRIGAN | HURRAHING IN HARVEST | G.M.Hopkins |
| COLETTE MOREY DE MORAND | A WARNING SERMON | Moss Rich |
| LUQIAN | SHORT SONG | Cao Cao |
| JUDITH ELLIOTT | THE LAMMAS HIRELING | Ian Duhig |
| TOBY AISBITT | THE SPIRIT OF POETRY | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| ROBINA ROSE | THE SECOND COMING | W.B.Yeats |
6th OCTOBER 2011 AT THE LIBRARY IN RETFORD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
This enthusiastically received reading was organised by Sheelagh Gallagher in the library as one of a
number of activities designed to celebrate National Poetry Day. It was attended by 22 people of all ages
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JOANNE ADAMS | COME AND BE MY BABY | Maya Angelou |
| KEN MACDONALD | RAILWAY CARRIAGE | R.L.Stevenson |
| MARLENE SIMPSON | UNKNOWN | N.S.Merion |
| BRENDAN STONEMAN | LIGHTS OUT | Edward Thomas |
| SHEELAGH GALLAGHER | TREMORS | Stewart Conn |
| CHRIS HARTNUP | SEA FEVER | John Masefield |
| PAT BARNETT | PRE-EXISTENCE | Frances Cornforth |
| MARLEY LUCAS | QUEEN MAB | Willaim blake |
| ROSIE ALLEN | MEDITATION ON A30 | John Betjeman |
| DI FRUIN | SERVING MAN | Rudyard kipling |
| ANDY MACMASTER | THE TERN | Spike Milligan |
| FIONN MORVEN | POEM FROM A THREE YEAR OLD | Brendan Kenelly |
| KEVIN MURPHY | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN | Robert Frost |
| JACKIE GOODBURN | PLEASE MRS BUTLER | Allen Ahlberg |
3rd October 2011 AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, DEANSGATE
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| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JOHN REED | SHE LEAVES ME | Anna Szabo |
| GAETANA TRIPPETTI | CHERRY PALMS | Jim Morrison |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | NIGHT TRAIN | Ken Smith |
| ROD WHITWORTH | THE QUALITY OF SPRAWL | Les Murray |
| DOLORES LONG | WALKING AWAY | C.D.Lewis |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | POEM | Simon Armitage |
| GAETANA TRIPPETTI | OPPOSITES | Carol Ann Duffy |
| PETER COPPING | THE WARDEN | Stevie Smith |
| JOHN REED | from DE RERUM NATURUM | trans. John Reed |
| JEANETTE SLVINSKI | THE CHARACTER OF A HAPPY LIFE | Henry Wooton |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | FLATLANDS | Ken Smith |
| DOLORES LONG | OZYMANDIAS | P.B.Shelley |
| JEANETTE SLVINSKI | ABOU BEN ADHEM | James Hunt |
| ROD WHITWORTH | HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMAN | Rudyard Kipling |
| PETER COPPING | IN MRS TILSCHER'S CLASS | Carol Ann Duffy |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | BOY IN A SNOW SHOWER | George Mackay Brown |
27th September 2011 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | THE AUTUMN | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| LORRAINE COOK | A DAY IN AUTUMN | R.S.Thomas |
| ALAN STAFFORD | THE APPLE | James Crowden |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | A LEAF TREADER | Robert Frost |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | BOOTS | Rudyard Kipling |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | AUTUMN | John Clare |
| ALISON MYERS | JIGSAW | Dawn Bauling |
| SYBIL DAVIES | ODE TO A SKLARK | P.B.Shelley |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | HEAVEN | A.S.J. Tessimond |
| BEL WALKER | FROM AN OUTPOST | Lelsie Coulson |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | RINGS | Carol Ann Duffy |
| SERIN TURRAL | THE BELFRY OF BRUGES | Henry Longfellow |
22nd September 2011 THE LIBRARY, SHEEN LANE CENTRE, RICHMOND, SURREY
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| TOM STANIER AND ANNE BLAKE | FIRST DATE | Wendy Cope |
| JEREMY PRESTON | JUST IN CASE | Charlotte Mitchell |
| IONA SMITH | VERY LIKE A WHALE | Ogden Nash |
| CAROLE ROGERSON | THE KING'S BREAKFAST | A.A.Milne |
| JULIA SMITH | TREBETHERICK | John Betjeman |
| PAT TILLEY | BLACKBERRYING | Sylvia Plath |
| JANE SHERWIN | WHY HAST THOU FORSAKEN ME | Ernesto Cardenal |
| ALISON WILSON | COLOGNE | Alfred Brendel with Richard Stokes |
| JOY CATFORD | A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD CONVALESCENT CAT IN THE WINTER | Gavin Ewart |
| TERESA VIARENGO | ALONE | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | VERGISSMEINNICHT | Keith Douglas |
| SIMON DAVIS | THE RETURN OF ALBERT | Marriot Edgar |
| CAROLINE DAVIS | CHOOSING A WIFE | Godfrey Rust |
| MIKE SMITH | THE VILLAGE INN | John Betjeman |
| SALLY HAMWEE | THE MAD FARMER | Wendell Berry |
| SHIONA LLEWELLYN | KING JOHN'S CHRISTMAS | A.A.Milne |
| ANDREW CALDER | ESSAY ON MAN | Alexander Pope |
| JOY MANNERS | A LOT OF WATER HAS FLOWED UNDER YOUR BRIDGE | Roger McGough |
| WILLIAM MACINTYRE | CHURCH GOING | Philip Larkin |
| DAVID MASSA | THE LISTENERS | Walter de la Mare |
| JOHN PHILPOT | THE MOWER | Philip Larkin |
2nd September 2011 THE ROCKET PUB, CHURCHFIELD RD, LONDON W3
Roz Sanderson, a reader, writes: The first week of September brought with it another Pass On A Poem
held in The Rocket next to Acton Central. From Shakespeare to Carol Ann Duffy, these poetry evenings
are designed to pass on the frisson of excitement and the enjoyment that you get when you find a poem
that you particularly love.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| MIKE MORRIS | TO AUTUMN | John Keats |
| JUDITH ELLIOT | THE SUMMER DAY | Mary Oliver |
| DAVID BAYS | THE CATS' PROTECTION LEAGUE | Roger McGough |
| CAROLINE DONNELLAN | from GILGAMESH | Anon |
| BRIAN DURRANS | ABOUT THE WAY TO CONSTRUCT ENDURING WORKS | Bertolt Brecht |
| SANDRA BARKER | IF | Rudyard Kipling |
| BRIAN LOONEY | SONNET 116 | William Shakespeare |
| ANNE WILSON | ATLAS | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | VERGISSMEINNICHT | Keith Douglas |
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | SORRY | Annie Schmidt |
| PETER WATKINS | REFLECTIONS AT DAWN | Phyllis McGinley |
| CATHY JOHNS | THE CHAIR | Paul Gallico |
| PAUL VINCENT | LIGHTS OUT | Edward Thomas |
| HANNAH KENT | INVERSNAID | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| NICK JONES | THE ROAD NOT TAKEN | Robert Frost |
| CATHERINE McCARTHY | IF I COULD TELL YOU | W.H.Auden |
| ALAN KENT | HERMANDAD (KINDRED SPIRITS) | Regino. E. Boti |
| JANE DUKE | HARD DRIVE | Hettie Jones |
| TIM SANDERSON | GOD IN THE QUAD | Monsignor Ronald Knox |
| HEDDA ARCHBOLD | WORDS | Anne Sexton |
| ALEX VOLOSSEVICH | FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE | Robert Louois Stevenson |
| ROZ SANDERSON | US TWO | A.A.Milne |
| DAVID SCOTT | TO A MOUSE | Robert Burns |
26th July 2011 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | THE GREEN EYE OF THE YELLOW GOD | J Milton Hayes |
| JENNIE CLARKE | UNAWARE | Mabel G Austin |
| ALAN STAFFORD | TELEVISION | Roald Dahl |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | A YOUNG BIRCH | Robert Frost |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | A THUNDERSTORM | Archibald Lampman |
| JO ROBERTS | THE SUMMER | Mary Oliver |
| SYBIL DAVIES | WHEN I AM AN OLD LADY | Joanne Baxter |
| ANN DAVENPORT | GREEK TRAGEDY | Christopher Matthew |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | from THE HOUND OF HEAVEN | Francis thompson |
| BEL WALKER | THIS SHORE AND THAT | Laurence Lerner |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | DIRECTIVE | Robert Frost |
| SERIN TURRAL | TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM A TRAIN | Francis Cornford |
| SERIN TURRAL | THE FAT WHITE WOMAN SPEAKS | G.K.Chesterton |
20th July 2011 IN ELGIN CRESCENT, NOTTING HILL, LONDON W11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JUDITH ELLIOTT | PANGUR BAN | Anon |
| ANNIE HENRY | THE MOOR | R.S.Thomas |
| LOLA STADLEN | THE SLEEPWALKING PRINCESS | Mercedes Kemp |
| MIKE MORRIS | ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE | John Keats |
| SUZANNE SPIEGELBERG | THE JUMBLIES | Edward Lear |
| JOHN HENRY | THE ROLLING ENGLISH ROAD | G.K.Chesterton |
| CAROLINE DONNELLAN | BAR ITALIA | Hugo Williams |
| JESSICA HOWARTH | AH! SUNFLOWER | William Blake |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | THE DRY SALVAGES PART V from FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| RIKI WILLEMER | EIN JÜNGLING LIEBT EIN MÄDCHEN | Heinrich Heine |
| BRIAN LOONEY | HITCHER | Simon Armitage |
| TREVOR MOSTYN | SHEMA | Primo Levi |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELL | THE FALL OF ROME | W.H.Auden |
| LINDA TAYLOR | HELL FOR POETS | Liz Lochhead |
| IMOGEN COOPER | from A DREAM SONG and FROM MY WINDOW NORTH:WINTER | Dominic Cooper |
| DEREK SHIEL | COOLE PARK AND BALLYLEE | W.B.Yeats |
| KATHRYN SUMNER | from CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE | Lord Byron |
| MATTHEW STADLEN | from THE TEMPEST | William Shakespeare |
| ROBINA ROSE | from HOWL | Allen Ginsberg |
| HUGH ROBERTS | from ULYSSES | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| LUCINDA BARRY | A VISIT FROM WISDOM | Khalil Gibran |
| TOBY AISBITT | A POEM FOR PERSONNEL MANAGERS | Charles Bukowski |
| PHILIPPA FAWCETT | from RICHARD 11 | William Shakespeare |
28th June 2011 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
At this reading the Bedford Group celebrated their third anniversary.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JESSICA MORRIS | from THE GEORGICS | Virgil |
| GILL STAFFORD | TARANTELLA | Hilaire Belloc |
| LORRAINE COOK | STOP ALL THE CLOCKS | W H Auden |
| JENNIE CLARKE | LEISURE/THE BOY | William Henry Davies |
| ALAN STAFFORD | UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE | William Wordsworth |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | SONG | John Donne |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | MULGA BILL'S BICYCLE | Banjo Paterson |
| ALISON MYERS | AMOR ERGO SUM | Kathleen Raine |
| JO ROBERTS | OZYMANDIAS | Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| SYBIL DAVIES | THE OLD VICARAGE, GRANTCHESTER | Rupert Brooke |
| ANN DAVENPORT | LOOK FOR ME IN RAINBOWS | Anon |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | THE SHOOTING OF DAN McGREW | Robert Service |
| BEL WALKER | OH ROWAN TREE | Lesley Nelson-Burns |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | THE BROOK | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| SERIN TURRAL | CARGOES | John Masefield |
28th June 2011 at RETFORD LIBRARY, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
This was the first reading in Retford, where Pass On A Poem was kindly offered hospitality by the library. A further reading
is planned for the autumn, as well as an event to coincide with National Poetry Day
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| PRIZE-GIVING | Kathy Galloway | |
| from LITTLE GIDDING | T.S.Eliot | |
| THE MOMENT | Margaret Atwood | |
| BY CHANCE | Elspeth Sandys | |
| THINGS | Fleur Adcock | |
| INVERSNAID | G.M.Hopkins | |
| DIGGING | Seamus Heaney | |
| THE TREE (from A GOD UNKNOWN) | John Steinbeck | |
| HAMNAVOE | George Mackay Brown | |
| THE RAILINGS | Roger McGough | |
| THE LISTENERS | Walter de la Mare | |
| MEETING POINT | Louis MacNeice | |
| THE BURNING OF THE LEAVES | Laurence Binyon | |
| THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT | Edward Lear | |
| LOOK CLOSER | Phyllis McCormac | |
| JABBERWOCKY | Lewis Carroll | |
| IDLING | Glynfab John | |
| THE ELFIN ARTIST | Alfred Noyes |
23rd June 2011 at BOOKA BOOKSHOP, OSWESTRY, SHROPSHIRE
This was a most successful first reading in the delightful and hospitable surroundings of Booka Bookshop, a thriving,
thoughtfully stocked and popular bookshop in the busy Border market town of Oswestry. For Independent Booksellers
Week, Carrie Morris, our host, gathered together an exciting collection of readers ranging from 9 to over 80 years old,
who brought an eclectic and stimulating mixture of poems to share.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| FRANCES STADLEN | A QUIET LIFE | Baron Wormser |
| VICKY TURRELL | TO HIS COY MISTRESS | Andrew Marvell |
| MARION YOUNG | A BATH TEASHOP | John Betjeman |
| CHARLES STILES | ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH | Wilfred Owen |
| MAIRI EYRES | THE COMMON CORMORANT | Christopher Isherwood |
| HENRY MAAS | AMOR PROFANUS | Earnest Dowson |
| MOIRA LOCKHART | PHENOMENAL WOMAN | Maya Angelou |
| KEVIN O'CONNELL | DUBLIN | Louis MacNeice |
| CHARLOTTE PHILLIPS | THE LOVESONG OF ALFRED. J. PRUFROCK | T.S.Eliot |
| IAN COLLINGS | ANNE HATHAWAY | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ANNE WHITEHOUSE | ONE ART | Elizabeth Bishop |
| SUSI MAAS | I AM | John Clare |
| ANGELA POWELL | ODE ON MELANCHOLY | John Keats |
| JOYCE WHITEHEAD | SINGAPORE | Mary Oliver |
| ASTRID DALIETOS | MY STEP-DAD IS AN ALIEN | Roger Stevens |
| KAREN PRITCHARD | CURTAINS | Matt Harvey |
| GRAHAM LADLEY | A PRAYER TO GO TO PARADISE WITH DONKEYS | Francis Jammes trans. Richard Wilbur |
| CARRIE MORRIS | THE HORSES | Ted Hughes |
11th June 2011 AT ST THOMAS A BECKETT CHURCH IN BATH, SOMERSET
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| SIAN LEWIS | IN CHURCH | R.S.Thomas |
| WAYNE HILL | MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS | W H Auden |
| JANET CUNLIFFE-JONES | ONE ART | Elizabeth Bishop |
| JANE HILDRETH | A GREYHOUND IN THE EVENING AFTER A LONG DAY OF RAIN | Alice Oswald |
| MIKE GERMAN | TICHBORNE'S ELEGY | Chidiock Tichborne |
| JAQUELINE BURROWS | BLUE HYDRANGEAS, SEPTEMBER | Gillian Clarke |
| ANNIE SABERWAL | OUT, OUT | Robert Frost |
| IAN GILCHRIST | JABBERWOCKY | Lewis Carroll |
| VERONA BASS | IT WAS LONG AGO | Eleanor Farjeon |
| MICHELLE THATCHER | THE WAY OF LOVE | Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi |
| SUE BOYLE | HYMN TO IRIS | Alice Oswald |
| ROSALIE CHALLIS | THE FORCE THAT THROUGH THE GREEN FUSE DRIVES THE FLOWER | Dylan Thomas |
| CHRISTINE GOODGAME NOBES | A POEM ON THE THEME OF HUMOUR | Wendy Cope |
| JOY GOLDSMITH | THE NEIGHBOURHOOD BULLY | Bob Dylan |
| TERESA LANGTON | MENDING WALL | Robert Frost |
| SHEILA KINSELLA | I DO NOT LOVE THEE | Caroline E S Norton |
| MALINDA KENNEDY | AUTOBIOGRAPHY | Louis NacNeice |
| SIMON PETTER | THE ROLLING ENGLISH ROAD | G K Chesterton |
| JAMES T SHERWIN | TWO SONGS FROM A PLAY | W B Yeats |
| PETER PLEASE | CYCLE OF HERMES AND MAGDALENE I AND 43 | John Moat |
| KEN HALLAM | SONNET 116 | William Shakespeare |
| DAVID COHEN | THE INVISIBLE MAN | Pablo Neruda |
| RO EMSLEY | FORGETFULNESS | Billy Collins |
| CAROLINE HEATON | SEPTEMBER | Tobias Hill |
| ALAN LANGTON | XXV11 IS MY TEAM PLOUGHING (THE SHROPSHIRE LAD) | A.E Housman |
| JANE ALLAN | IF I WERE A LADY | Percy French |
| SARAH LEWIS | THE CHILD AT THE WINDOW | Siegfried Sassoon |
6th June 2011 AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, DEANSGATE
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| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| IAN REED | WHAT DO DO WITH SORROW | Linda Chase |
| ANNE BESWICK | TIGER, TIGER | Anne Beswick |
| PETER COOK | BLUE FLAGS | William Carlos Williams |
| ROB BRETTLE | HOLD MY HAND | Joe Brettle |
| MARIA NIXON | THE LOVE SONG OF ALFRED J PRUFROCK | T.S.Eliot |
| ALAN SPENCER | SUNSET, CENTRAL PARK | Samuel Menache |
| CATHY BRYANT | THE LAST HERO | G K Chesterton |
| JOEL SWANN | from PARADISE REGAINED | John Milton |
| GAETANA TRIPPETTI | LEAVING BELFAST | Andrew Motion |
| JANE WILKSHIRE | AFTER APPLE PICKING | Robert Frost |
| ROD WHITWORTH | UNDER CAPRICORN | Kevin Cadwallender |
| DOLORES LONG | CATS NO LESS LIQUID THAN THEIR SHADOWS | A S J Tessimond |
| SHEILA WILD | ALL OVER AGAIN | Louis MacNeice |
| JOYCE REED | OUTGROWN | Penelope Shuttle |
| KEIR THOMAS | A BOOK OF MY ENEMY TO BE REMAINDERED | Clive James |
| JOHN REED | THE FARMER'S BRIDE | Charlotte Mew |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | LUGGER | David Constantine |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | VIOLET | Alice Oswald |
| ANDY N | THE DREADED BOY | Anthony Owen |
| VICTORIA KEEVES | A CONSIDERABLE SPECK (MICROSCOPIC) | Robert Frost |
19th MAY 2011 AT THE HOUSE OF A READER IN BATH, SOMERSET
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| NIKKI SIEGEN-SMITH | SKY EGG | Tim Liardet |
| ROBIN ALLISON-SMITH | KINGFISHER | Phoebe Hesketh |
| DEIDRE McSHARRY | A PEACOCK FEATHER/ THE CLOTHES SHRINE | Seamus Heaney |
| DIANA JEATER | DEFLOWERING/THE SUN RISING | Mahmood Jamal/John Donne |
| FRANCES-ANNE KING | NUPTIALS | John Agard |
| ANGELA VICK | BITCHEREL | Eleanor Brown |
| FIFI CHARRINGTON | TOUCH | Elizabeth Jennings |
| DEBORAH CLEMENTS | GOD BLESS THE GIDEONS or THERE'S ALWAYS THE KING JAMES VERSION | Ogden Nash |
| JAMES SHERWIN | YOURS | Judith Johnson |
| PHILIPPA FORRESTER | THE SCHOOLBOY | William Blake |
| TESSA STRICKLAND | HUNTER TRIALS | John Betjeman |
| JULIE HAYWARD | THE POBBLE WHO HAS NO TOES | Edward Lear |
| JOHN MCKLAY | from BEOWULF | |
| MARGARET HOPKINS | from THE ODYSSEY | Homer |
| SARAH LEWIS | ADVICE ON CUTTING BACK | Jane Weir |
| FRANK DUX | THE ROMAN ROAD | Thomas Dux |
| CAROLINE HEATON | SWINEHERD | Eilean ni Chuilleanain |
| CHRISTINE GOODGAME NOBES | SOMEWHAT UNRAVELLED | Jo Shapcott |
| MORNY DAVISON | THE MOWER | Philip Larkin |
| SUE CHIVERS | A SCATTERING | Christopher Reid |
| CHARLES HAYWARD | THE CATARACT OF LODORE | Robert Southey |
| PAT ROBSON | PROUD SONGSTERS | Thomas Hardy |
| BEL MOONEY | MOCKINGBIRDS | Mary Oliver |
17th May 2011 THE TRAVEL BOOKSHOP, BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LONDON W11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JOHN HENRY | from THE SHADOW OF THE SILK ROAD | Colin Thubron |
| HAZEL MORRIS | SMOOTH SLIDING DOWN THE SILK | Nabeel Khalid |
| LINDA TAYLOR | KUBLA KHAN | S T Coleridge |
| JO SANDERS | A SONG OF LU MOUNTAIN TO CENSOR LU XUZHOU | Li Bai |
| CHRISSIE KOUNOUPA | from THE ODYSSEY | Homer |
| KHALID KISHTAINY | SONG LYRICS | from Iraq |
| LINDA HENRY | FOUNTAINS | James Elroy Flecker |
| ROBINA ROSE | from THE ELDER EDDA | Old Icelandic |
| DEREK SHIEL | OZYMANDIAS | P.B Shelley |
| DAVID BIRK | Li Yu | |
| ANNIE HENRY | 3045 | Stephen Beal |
| JUDITH ELLIOT | WOMAN | Fu Hsuan |
| HUGH ROBERTS | BITTER FRUIT FALLING TO EARTH | Khalilullah Khalili |
| KATE BIRK | FAREWELL TO PREFECT DU | Wang Bo |
| JUDY TALBOT | THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND | James Elroy Flecker |
| JANE DARWIN and LU QUIAN | A SONG OF LIANG ZHOU | Zhang Ji |
| SUSANNAH TARBUSH | AFGHAN QUATRAINS | trans. Veronica Doubleday |
13th MAY 2011 THE ROCKET PUB, CHURCHFIELD RD, LONDON W3
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BRIAN LOONEY | AN ABSOLUTELY ORDINARY RAINBOW | Les Murray |
| JUDITH ELLIOT | FORGETFULNESS | Billy Collins |
| MALCOLM SINGER | AND DEATH SHALL HAVE NO DOMINION | Dylan Thomas |
| BRENDA ROSEN | THE CURE IS IN THE PAIN | Jelaludin Rumi |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | MENDING WALL | Robert Frost |
| LYNN WARE | CROSSING THE BAR | Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| CATHERINE McCARTHY | THE WAY WE LIVE | Kathleen Jamie |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | AN ARUNDEL TOMB | Philip Larkin |
| CAROLINE DONNELLAN | WHEN YOU ARE OLD | W B Yeats |
| NICK JONES | DULCE ET DECORUM EST | Wilfred Owen |
| SARA NATHAN | THE MUSICAL EXPRESS | Dannie Abse |
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | BITCHEREL | Eleanor Brown |
| CATHY JOHNS | MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS | W H Auden |
| MIKE MORRIS | LOUSE HUNTING | Isaac Rosenberg |
| CHARLIE MAWER | A BLADE OF GRASS | Brian Patten |
| CHRISTY BARRY | THE MUD-SPATTERED RECOLLLECTIONS..... | Alice Oswald |
| DAVID SCOTT | SONNET 138 | William Shakespeare |
| ROZ SANDERSON | from THE LOVESONG OF ALFRED J PRUFROCK | T S Eliot |
| DOUG JOHNSON | SOMETIMES | Sheenagh Pugh |
| HEDDA ARCHBOLD | IF THOU MUST LOVE ME, LET IT BE FOR NAUGHT | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| LAURA MOORE | WHALESONG | Sophie Stevenson-Wright |
| SARAH MORRIS | THE GOOD MORROW | John Donne |
| BRIAN DURRANS | I HEAR AN ARMY | James Joyce |
| ANNIE HENRY | MEMORY OF MY FATHER | Patrick Kavanagh |
29th March 2011 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | MYFANWY | Richard Davies |
| LORRAINE COOK | LONELY HEARTS | Wendy Cope |
| JENNIE CLARKE | NURSE'S SONG | William Blake |
| ALAN STAFFORD | THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT | Takawira Dururu |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | VITAE LAMPADA | Sir Henry Newbolt |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | BUTTON BOX | Leonard Clark |
| MAUREEN HILL-JONES | AT TEA | Thomas Hardy |
| JO ROBERTS | THE BRIGHT FIELD | R.S. Thomas |
| ALISON MYERS | APRIL BIRTHDAY | Ted Hughes |
| SYBIL DAVIES | HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD | Andrew Marvell |
| ANN DAVENPORT | MY LAW TIEME | Ranapiri |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | JUST IN CASE | Charlotte Mitchell |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | THE MIRROR | John Ruskin |
| BEL WALKER | THE NIGHT PATROL | Arthur Graeme West |
17th March 2011 AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, DEANSGATE
Twenty one people attended this very successful reading held in conjunction with Manchester Central Library .
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| OLGA KENYON FOR ALAN SPENCER | VOYAGE | Samuel Menashe |
| GAETANA TRIPPETTI | COLLUM CILLE CECINIT | Seamus Heaney |
| JEANETTE SLAVEN | A BALLAD | Oscar Wilde |
| STEVE WALLING | HEART AND MIND | Edith Sitwell |
| URSULA SHARMA | A BLIND MAN STRINGS A COT | Arun Lolaatkar |
| DOLORES LONG | ON KILLING A TREE | Gieve Patel |
| JOHN READ | MARIE FERRAR WHO MURDERED HER CHILD | Bertolt Brecht |
| ROD WHITWORTH | MACHINES | Michael Donaghy |
| OLGA KENYON | THE LAST POSTCARD | Lavinia Greenlaw |
| CATHY BRYANT | PEEKABOO, I ALMOST SEE YOU | Ogden Nash |
| SALLY ROBINSON | INSTRUCTIONS TO AN ACTOR | Edwin Morgan |
| ZOE STAFFORD | JESUS | John Hegley |
| SHAUN MCMANUS | A POEM | |
| ANDY N | UNTITLED | Derek Jarman |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | A TIME TO TALK | Robert Frost |
| KEIR THOMAS | WHOLE LOVE | Robert Graves |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | LIGHTNING AND SUMMER HOLIDAY | Sasha Dugdale |
| ALISON NICHOL | THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN | Rudyard kipling |
11th MARCH 2011 THE ROCKET PUB, CHURCHFIELD RD, LONDON W3
Well over 50 people attended the third reading at this vibrant and spacious venue organised by Linda Taylor in an upper
room of The Rocket in Acton, West London.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| SHEILA TIFFANY | THE VOICE | Thomas Hardy |
| SARAH-JANE LEA | SILVER LINING | Carol Ann Duffy |
| MIKE MORRIS | GO BACK TO THE OPAL SUNSET | Clive James |
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | ODE TO TOMATOES | Pablo Neruda |
| JOHN HENRY | NEARING THE END | Keith Ratcliffe |
| NARA SIMON | I LOVED YOU | Alexander Pushkin |
| CATHY JOHNS | NAMING OF PARTS | Henry Reed |
| PAUL VINCENT | RAIN | Don Paterson |
| HEDDA ARCHBOLD | MEMORY OF HOLLAND | Hendrik Marsman |
| ANNIE HENRY | PRAYER | Carol Ann Duffy |
| MALCOLM SINGER | I AM A LITTLE CHURCH | e e cummings |
| JUDITH ELLIOT | BERMUDAS | Andrew Marvell |
| CATHERINE MCCARTHY | I'VE BROUGHT THIS SUMMER JUST FOR YOU | Kutti Revathi |
| MAUREEN COLLEDGE | MATILDA | Hilaire Belloc |
| BRIAN LOONEY | FINNEGAN'S WAKE | Traditional |
| GINNY DOUGARY | ICICLES ROUND A TREE IN DUMFRIESSHIRE | Ruth Padel |
| NICK JONES | HITCHER | Simon Armitage |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | THE TOYS | Coventry Patmore |
| JANE DUKE | COBWEBS | Fran Isherwood |
| TIM SANDERSON | SONNET X11 | William Shakespeare |
9th February 2011 THE TRAVEL BOOKSHOP, BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LONDON W11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JANE DARWIN | AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH | W.B.Yeats |
| MARY-LU BAKKER | ELEPHANT | from the Yoruba, trans. Uli Beier |
| JOHN HENRY | ROCK DOC | Gordon Judge |
| JO SANDERS | BEGIN | Brendan Kennelly |
| ROBINA ROSE | ||
| MIKE MORRIS | ARSENIO | Robin Robertson |
| MAGGIE WOONTON | THE DOG | Linda Hoy |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELLL | THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD | Wallace Stevens |
| PATRICK HARRIGAN | THE RACE | Sharon Olds |
| LINDA TAYLOR | WHAT SHALL I DO WITH MY LOVE OF POETRY? | Marilyn Bowering |
| MATTHEW STADLEN | INVICTUS | William Ernest Henley |
| KARINE CRABBE | SILENCE | Marianne Moore |
| ANDREW SIMMS | from THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ARCHIE AND MEHITABEL | Don Marquis |
| CHERYL MARKOVSKY | CANADA | Billy Collins |
| KITTY COOPER | AN EPITHALAMION, OR MARRIAGE SONG | John Donne |
| PHILIPPA FAWCETT | SORRY AFFAIR | Alfred Brendel |
| STEVEN FOWLER | A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE WORD | Harry Crosby |
| ANNIE HENRY | GRADUAL | R.S.Thomas |
| GRACE HUDSON EVANS | WHEN I HAVE FEARS | John Keats/Noel Coward |
| BRIAN LOONEY | from THE TEMPEST | William Shakespeare |
| SUZANNE SPIEGELBERG | PIED BEAUTY | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| TOBY AISBITT | WHAT IS THE WORD | Samuel Beckett |
10th February 2011 THE LIBRARY, SHEEN LANE CENTRE, RICHMOND, SURREY
The very well attended first reading of the new year was hosted by the ever hospitable Jeremy Preston, the librarian at
Sheen Lane Centre, and was once again beautifully organised by Kathy Philpot and Adrienne Jack.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BERNARD ADAMS | THE COASTERS | John Hewitt |
| JEREMY PRESTON | GOODBYE TO NEW ORLEANS | Alan Samson |
| NANCY WILLIAMS | ONE ART | Elizabeth Bishop |
| JOY CATFORD | LOOK AT ALL THOSE MONKEYS | Spike Milligan |
| CAROLYN GORDON | THE BECKONING LINE | Betty Barnes |
| PAT TILLEY | PRAYER | Carol Anne Duffy |
| FRANCESCA OWEN | TO LIZBIE BROWN | Thomas Hardy |
| JOY MANNERS | SANTORIN-JAMES | Elroy Flecker |
| ALISON WILSON | NIGHT MAIL | W.H.Auden |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | from THE DRY SALVAGES, FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| TOM STANIER and ANNE BLAKE | NOT MY BEST SIDE | U.A Fanthorpe |
| MIKE SMITH | FOR THE FALLEN | Laurence Binyon |
| IONA SMITH | UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE | William Wordsworth |
| DAVID MASSA | MENDACITY | A.E.Coppart |
| MIREILLE STANTON | THE BOOK OF MY ENEMY HAS BEEN REMAINDERED | Clive James |
| SALLY HAMWEES | MESSAGE | Wendy Cope |
| ANDREW CALDER | A SONG ABOUT MYSELF | John Keats |
| SARAH WILLS | LOOK CLOSER | anon |
| ADRIENNE JACK | COME, AND BE MY BABY | Maya Angelou |
15th December 2010 THE OXFAM BOOKSHOP,TURNHAM GREEN , LONDON W4
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| MARGARET PICKFORD | NOT BY BEST SIDE | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| COLIN PARSLEY | THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI | Christopher Pillage |
| CLARE WILLIAMSON | AN ODE TO THE BIRTH OF OUR SAVIOUR | Robert Herrick |
| DAWN BRANDL | A BIRD IN HAND | Roald Dahl |
| JOHN WILLIAMS | OX CART MAN | Donald Hall |
| ANNE FARTHING | STILL LOOKING MRS HEROD | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | from THE DRY SALVAGES, THE FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| KATHY HALL | ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY | John Milton |
| LYNNE REID BANKS | ABU BEN ADHEM | Leigh Hunt |
| SARAH HAIMENDORF | THE NAY | Khalil Gibran |
| PAUL WILLIAMSON | NAMING OF PARTS | Henry Reed |
| ELIZABETH REILLY | A THOUGHT | Hubert Newman |
| SIMON WILLIAMS | I AM VERY BOTHERED | Simon Armitage |
| JOHANNA FARRER | COME IN | Robert Frost |
| GEOFF HIRST | DOVER BEACH | Matthew Arnold |
| JUDY WILLIAMS | EDITORIAL IMPRESSIONS | Siegfried Sassoon |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | from THE PRELUDE | William Wordsworth |
| SUSAN STANLEY CARROLL | LONDON BELLS | Anon |
9th December 2010 AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, DEANSGATE
The fourth meeting of Manchester's Pass On A Poem group was held once again in the Central Library and much enjoyed.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JOHN CALVERT | WE ARE STONES | Barry McSweeney |
| LIBBY TEMPEST | POEM | Libby Tempest |
| DOLORES LONG | SOMETIMES | Sheenagh Pugh |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | EVERY SANG | Siegfried Sassoon |
| PETER TOCTAN | RUSSIAN POEM | Sergey Esenin |
| chosen by ALAN SPENCER | CHESTNUT TREE | Roger Waterfield |
| ANDY N | WINTER | Paul Celan |
| FELICITY EVANS | I CARRY YOUR HEART | e e cummings |
| MATT BYRNE | WIND | Ted Hughes |
| MARIA NIXON | TO JOHN DONNE | Michael Symmons Roberts |
| VICTORIA KEEVES | PORTRAIT | Linda Chase |
| ANNE BESWICK | BC/AD | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| JANE WILKSHIRE | UR | Sylvia Plath |
| PETER COTTON | FRIENDS | W.B.Yeats |
| JOEL SWANN | CHURCH MONUMENTS | George Herbert |
| JEANETTE SLAVINSKI | THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS | Clement Moore |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | A MIRACLE | Carol Ann Duffy |
2nd DECEMBER 2010 THE ROCKET PUB, CHURCHFIELD RD, LONDON W3
The second reading in the comfortable and spacious upper room of The Rocket in Acton was very well attended and much
enjoyed by those who braved it through the snow and ice.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| PAUL VINCENT | IF I COULD TELL YOU | W.H.Auden |
| JUDITH ELLIOTT | SANDPIPER | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ALEX EASTWOOD | THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS | Marriot Edgar |
| ANNIE HENRY | IN MY CRAFT OR SULLEN ART | Dylan Thomas |
| CHRISTY BARRY | MRS MIDAS | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ANNE WILSON | A MAN IN HIS LIFE | Yehuda Amichai |
| SARAH BRADLEY | WALKING AWAY | Cecil Day Lewis |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | from THE DRY SALVAGES, FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| SARAH MORRIS | STILL I RISE | Maya Angelou |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | BREDON HILL from A SHROPSHIRE LAD | A.E.Housman |
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | GOD MADE THE WORLD, BUT THE DUTCH MADE HOLLAND | James Brockway |
| HEDDA ARCHBOLD | NOT MY BEST SIDE | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| MIKE MORRIS | THE STALIN EPIGRAM | Osip Mandelstam |
| DONALD MCDONNELL | from CHAMBER MUSIC | James Joyce |
| CATHY JOHNS | MUSHROOMS | Sylvia Plath |
| BRIAN LOONEY | SONNET 29 | William Shakespeare |
| ROZ SANDERSON | TELEVISION | Roald Dahl |
| JOHN HENRY | POOR DORIS | Gordon Judge |
| LARRY WRIGHT | ETCHING OF A LINE OF TREES ON A HILL ABOVE AUCHTERHOUSE | John Glenday |
| NICK JONES | from A CHILD'S CHRISTMAS IN WALES | Dylan Thomas |
29th September 2010 THE OXFAM BOOKSHOP,TURNHAM GREEN , LONDON W4
Pavements wet with pouring rain did not deter POAP people gathering in Chiswick’s Oxfam Book Shop. An evening flecked
with reflections and unexpected links between diverse poems intrigued and delighted us all. Peter Howell inspired us with
the intensity of Philip Larkin’s Going Going, followed by Anne Farthing’s evocative Born Yesterday and Judy William’s
pertinent Homage to a Government. Thus we celebrated Larkin’s centenary and his death 25 years ago.
Roger Morsley-Smith’s heartfelt rendering of T.S. Eliot’s Dry Salvages from the Four Quartets was exquisitely spoken from
memory. Margaret Pickford’s wry humour seeped from Exchanging Gifts, while Colin Parsley's Gourmet’s Love Song
followed by Racker Donnelly’s Hamlet provoked tumbles of laughter. Powerful poems by Rudyard Kipling and Sir Henry
Newbolt were delivered with conviction by Scott Gronmark (He Fell Among Thieves) and John Williams (The Roman
Centurion Speaks). Sarah Haimendorf’s mellifluous reading of Autumn by John Keats encouraged us to escape emotionally
to the country. We delighted in The Piano by D.H. Lawrence read with aplomb by Geoff Hurst, and in contrast we were
surprised by the sentiments in Dawn Brandhl’s exquisitely read Pangur Ban, written anonymously in the eighth century,
and the deep, sweet sadness of Brumanei by James Elroy Flecker, a gift to us all, and read eloquently by Clare Williamson.
Finally, Susan Stanley-Carroll concluded the evening with Hair Raiser, a cheeky poem, by Judith Nicholls. John Williams
presented the programme with panache and we thank Jill Thomas, the Manager, for allowing us to gather in Chiswick’s
Oxfam Bookshop.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| MARGARET PICKFORD | EXCHANGING GIFTS | Sheila Parry |
| COLIN PARSLEY | THE GOURMET'S LOVE SONG | P.G.Wodehouse |
| JO SANDERS | THE STOUR AT HAMMOON | Catherine Simmonds |
| PETER HOWELL | GOING, GOING | Philip Larkin |
| ANNE FARTHING | BORN YESTERDAY | Philip Larkin |
| DAWN BRANDL | PANGUR BAN | Anon |
| CLAIRE WILLIAMSON | BRUMANEI | James Elroy Flecker |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | from THE DRY SALVAGES, THE FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| JOHN WILLIAMS | THE ROMAN CENTURION SPEAKS | Rudyard Kipling |
| SARAH HAIMENDORF | TO AUTUMN | John Keats |
| GEOFF HIRST | PIANO | D.H.Lawrence |
| JUDY WILLIAMS | HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT | Philip Larkin |
| RACKEK DONNELLY | HAMLET | Ronnie Corbett |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | HE FELL AMONG THIEVES | Sir Henry Newbolt |
| SUSAN STANLEY-CARROLL | HAIR RAISER | Judith Nicholls |
23rd SEPTEMBER 2010 THE ROCKET PUB, CHURCHFIELD RD, LONDON W3
The first reading in an upper room at this wonderful new pub venue was a great success, with 40 people attending, half
to read, half to listen. The organiser, Linda Taylor, pioneered Pass On A Poem readings in a college setting when she
worked at a womens' adult education college.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | ANNE HATHAWAY | Carol Ann Duffy |
| DONALD MCDONNELL | LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE | W.B.Yeats |
| JUDITH ELLIOTT | THE LOWEST TREES HAVE TOPS | Edward Dyer |
| HEDDA ARCHBOLD | SOMETIMES | Sheenagh Pugh |
| JORGE JESUS | COMO QUANDO DO MAR TEMPESTUOSO (SHIPWRECK) | Luis Vaz de Camoes |
| PICOT CASSIDY | EPIC | Patrick Kavanagh |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | THE DRY SALVAGES. PART 1. | T S Eliot |
| ANNE WILSON | MOONLIT APPLES | John Drinkwater |
| DAVID BAYS | SILLY OLD BABOON | Spike Milligan |
| CATHERINE McCARTHY | SOMETIMES IT HAPPENS | Brian Patten |
| BRIAN LOONEY | THE FLEA | John Donne |
| DON KENNEDY | IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR | Adrian Henri |
| ANNIE HENRY | THE GLASS | Edwin Morgan |
| MIKE MORRIS | TOADS | Philip Larkin |
| ANNE BROWN | SONG OF THOSE WHO DIED IN VAIN | Primo Levi |
| SHEILA TIFFANY | SNAKE | D H Lawrence |
| JANE DUKE | DOES IT MATTER | Siegfried Sassoon |
| JOHN HENRY | HIGH FLIGHT | John Gillespie Magee, Jr |
| MALCOLM SINGER | THE GARDEN | Dom Moraes |
| MICHELLE SMITH | SONNET 17 | Pablo Neruda |
20th April 2010 THE TRAVEL BOOKSHOP, BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LONDON W11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JANE DARWIN | QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL | Elizabeth Bishop |
| MARY-LU BAKKER | from SOHRAB AND RUSTUM | Matthew Arnold |
| JOHN HENRY | AFTER THE LUNCH | Wendy Cope |
| JO SANDERS | TAM O'SHANTER | Robert Burns |
| ROBINA ROSE | river passages from | Conrad and Dickens |
| MIKE MORRIS | AN ARUNDEL TOMB | Philip Larkin |
| MAGGIE WOONTON | from SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT | trans Simon Armitage |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELLL | HOLY SONNET 14 | John Donne |
| PATRICK HARRIGAN | BIRTHDAYS AND DEATHDAYS | Sheila Shannon |
| LINDA TAYLOR | PASSAGES | Sara Maguire |
| MATTHEW STADLEN | THE TREVI FOUNTAIN | Vyacheslav Ivanovich |
| KARINE CRABBE | THE GUEST HOUSE | Rumi |
| ANDREW SIMMS | from A SHROPSHIRE LAD | A.E.Housman |
| CHERYL MARKOVSKY | WHAT IT IS | Erich Fried |
| KITTY COOPER | DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND | William Carlos Williams |
| PHILIPPA FAWCETT | FOR A FIVE YEAR OLD | Fleur Adcock |
| STEVEN FOWLER | from THE PRELUDE | William Wordsworth |
| ANNIE HENRY | from THE PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| GRACE HUDSON EVANS | THE NAMES OF THE HARE | Seamus Heaney |
| BRIAN LOONEY | from THE TEMPEST | Keith Ratcliffe |
| SUZANNE SPIEGELBERG | PIED BEAUTY | |
| TOBY AISBITT | WHAT IS THE WORD |
16th September 2010 AT MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY, DEANSGATE
Manchester's Pass On A Poem group was very grateful to the Central Library for hosting its third meeting, which was
well attended and much enjoyed. Regular reader Alan Spencer contributed a poem as a token of his enjoyment. Read his
poem here.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| ANNE BESWICK | THE BEE BOY'S SONG | Rudyard Kipling |
| SAM O'HANA | THE PRINCIPLES OF CONCEALMENT | David Wagoner |
| ALISON NICHOLS | THE TWINS | Henry F Leigh |
| JOEL SWANN | THE WITCH OF COS | Robert Frost |
| JOYCE REED | MRS AESOP | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ALAN SPENCER | CORNER SEAT | Louis McNeice |
| ANDY N | QUARRY | Paul Auster |
| MICHAEL COLLINS | THE TALE OF THE CUSTARD DRAGON | Ogden Nash |
| CYNTHIA GREENWOOD | THE ROAD ALSO | Wilfred Owen |
| IAN REED | GO TO BED WITH A CHEESE AND PICKLE SANDWICH | |
| JEANETTE SLAVINSKI | INVICTUS | William Ernest Henley |
| STEPHEN GARSIDE | THE TREES | Eugenio Montejo |
| JULIE JARMAN | FORECASTING | Julie Darling |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | THROWING A TREE | Thomas Hardy |
| DOLORES LONG | THE TEACHERS | Liz Lochead |
| ALAN TAYLOR | MIRACLES | Walt Whitman |
27th July 2010 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | RUBY | John Fuller |
| LORRAINE COOK | LATE JULY | Chris Korta |
| JENNIE CLARKE | A DAY OFF | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | THE VALLEY OF THE BLACK PIG | W B Yeats |
| ALISON MYERS | MOTHER, SUMMER, I | Philip Larkin |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | THE RIVER DEBEN | Stevie Smith |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | WHEN I GET UP FROM MY CHAIR | Pam Ayres |
| MIKE CARPENTER | CROW AND THE BIRDS | Ted Hughes |
| JO ROBERTS | QUIET ZONE | Roger McGough |
| ANN DAVENPORT | THE GARDEN | Andrew Marvell |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | SOLITUDE | Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | PHOTOCOPYING YOUR STORY | Archie Markham |
| GILL STAFFORD | THE HOUSE | David Sutton |
| LORRAINE COOK | TEXT | Carol Ann Duffy |
| JENNIE CLARKE | COME, REST AWHILE | Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | THIS BE THE VERSE | Philip Larkin |
| ALISON MYERS | THE CLOUDS ARE LOW | Arnold Wesker |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | THRIFT | Alice Oswald |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | 15,000,000 PLASTIC BAGS | Adrian Mitchell |
| MIKE CARPENTER | THE GOSLINGS | Anon |
| JO ROBERTS | THE MANAGER | Colette Bryce |
| ANN DAVENPORT | CHILDHOOD | Francis Cornford |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | THE DESERTED VILLAGE | Oliver Goldsmith |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | THE BOAT RIDE | Sean Elliot |
17th JUNE 2010 AT THE FRIENDS' MEETING HOUSE, MOUNT ST, MANCHESTER
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| MARK ABRAHAM | THE NEW VESTMENTS | Edward Lear |
| DOLORES LONG | MIRACLE ON ST DAVID'S DAY | Gillian Clarke |
| CATHY BRYANT | BMW | Steve O'Connor |
| HELENA JARMAN | HAVISHAM | Carol Ann Duffy |
| KIER THOMAS | I KNOW | Rod Tame |
| GAETANA TRIPPETTI | AE FOND KISS | Robert Burns |
| JOEL SWANN | A SONNET | John Milton |
| OLGA KENYON | WATER | Philip Larkin |
| MATT BYRNE | SKUNK HOUR | Robert Lowell |
| IAN REED | THE POETRY DIET | Cathy Bryant |
| BETH WILBURN | PIED BEAUTY | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| JOYCE REED | A CHILD'S SLEEP | Carol Ann Duffy |
| STEVE WALLING | RUNNING TO METER | Michael Haslam |
| PETER TOCTAN | TO HIS COY MISTRESS | Andrew Marvell |
| RUTH ABRAHAM | LET ME DIE A YOUNG MAN'S DEATH | Roger McGough |
| ALISON NICHOL | GOLIATH | Walter de la Mare |
| OLGA KENYON | JUDE'S STRAWBERRIES | Christine Bousfield |
| JULIE JARMAN | PAX | D.H.Lawrence |
| MARIA NIXON | THE HOTEL BROWN POEMS | John Ash |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | THE GOOD NEWS | Tich Nhat Hanh |
26th May 2010 THE OXFAM BOOKSHOP,TURNHAM GREEN , LONDON W4
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JILL WHITE | GET YOUR THINGS TOGETHER | Frances Nagle |
| ROBERTA AARONS | from THE SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY | Edgar Lee Masters |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | SHAKE, MULLEARY AND GO-ETHE | H.C.Bunner |
| JO SANDERS | WIND | Ted Hughes |
| PETER HOWELL | I NEVER EVEN SUGGESTED IT | Ogden Nash |
| ANNE FARTHING | BAGHDAD AND JOURNEY | Sheila Black |
| DAWN BRANDL | POEM | Dylan Thomas |
| JOHN WILLIAMS | THE SNAKE | D.H.Lawrence |
| DONALD TAYLOR | TO HIS COY MISTRESS | Andrew Marvell |
| MARGARET PICKFORD | WHAT IF..... | Benjamin Zephaniah |
| GEOFF HIRST | POEM ON THE UNDERGROUND | D.J.Enright |
| SARAH HAIMENDORF | THRUSHES | Siegfried Sassoon |
| JUDY WILLIAMS | ODE ON A GRECIAN URN | John Keats |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | OUT OF THE CRADLE..... | Walt Whitman |
| SUSIE STANLEY CARROLL | LINE JUDGES | from a Times leader |
5th May 2010 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | LET US CELEBRATE | Roger McGough |
| LORRAINE COOK | GLOIRE DE DIJON | D.H.Lawrence |
| JENNIE CLARKE | THE SPIRIT IS TOO BLUNT | Anne Stevenson |
| ALAN STAFFORD | WISTERIA | Michael A Guy |
| ALISON MYERS | DON'T ASK ME | R.S.Thomas |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | WEDDING | Alice Oswald |
| MIKE CARPENTER | TO HIS COY MISTRESS | Andrew Marvell |
| SYBIL DAVIES | ROMNEY MARSH | John Davidson |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | THE COMMERCIAL'S WIFE | Fay Inchbawn |
| GILLIAN STAFFORD | FRIENDSHIP | Cole Porter |
| LORRAINE COOK | EBB | Edna St Vincent Millay |
| JENNIE CLARKE | CHILDHOOD | Frances Cornford |
| ALAN STAFFORD | THE JOY OF SOCKS | Wendy Cope |
| ALISON MYERS | THERE WAS A TIME MY BONES KNEW | Arnold Wesker |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | MY COMPLICATED DAUGHTER | Julia Darling |
| MIKE CARPENTER | PLEASE MRS BUTLER | Alan Ahlberg |
| SYBIL DAVIES | CORINNA'S MAYING | Robert Herrick |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | THE DAUGHTER WHO WEEPS | T.S.Eliot |
20th April 2010 THE TRAVEL BOOKSHOP, BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LONDON W11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| KARINE CRABBE | QUESTIONS OF TRAVEL | Elizabeth Bishop |
| ROBIN PORTEOUS | from SOHRAB AND RUSTUM | Matthew Arnold |
| ANNA DANGOOR | AFTER THE LUNCH | Wendy Cope |
| BRIAN LOONEY | TAM O'SHANTER | Robert Burns |
| ROBINA ROSE | river passages from | Conrad and Dickens |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | AN ARUNDEL TOMB | Philip Larkin |
| JUDITH ELLIOT | from SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT | trans Simon Armitage |
| JO SANDERS | HOLY SONNET 14 | John Donne |
| MEIRION HARRIS | BIRTHDAYS AND DEATHDAYS | Sheila Shannon |
| SUSANNAH TARBUSH | PASSAGES | Sara Maguire |
| HUGH ROBERTS | THE TREVI FOUNTAIN | Vyacheslav Ivanovich |
| KATHERINE SCOTT | THE GUEST HOUSE | Rumi |
| MIKE MORRIS | from A SHROPSHIRE LAD | A.E.Housman |
| ALEKA LIEVEN | WHAT IT IS | Erich Fried |
| TOBY AISBITT | DEDICATION FOR A PLOT OF GROUND | William Carlos Williams |
| ANNIE HENRY | FOR A FIVE YEAR OLD | Fleur Adcock |
| MICHAEL BARNES | from THE PRELUDE | William Wordsworth |
| LINDA TAYLOR | from THE PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES | Geoffrey Chaucer |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELL | THE NAMES OF THE HARE | Seamus Heaney |
| JOHN HENRY | FOR ALEC | Keith Ratcliffe |
8th April 2010 at MAGDALEN CHAPEL, HOLLOWAY, BATH, SOMERSET
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| WILLIAM BURMAN | MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS | W.H.Auden |
| MERETTA HART | TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE | W.H.Auden |
| SARAH LEWIS | LINES WRITTEN ON A SEAT ON THE GRAND CANAL, DUBLIN | Patrick Kavanagh |
| CAROLINE HEATON | APRIL | Alice Oswald |
| PAT ROBSON | THE RUIN | Anon |
| WAYNE HILL | LOOKING FOR THE HOUSE | Candy Neubert |
| BEL MOONEY | MOUNTAIN LION | D.H.Lawrence |
| ROBIN ALLISON-SMITH | MISSING: A DOG'S DOGGEREL | Mary Morris |
| SARAH WHEELER | HIS PANTOUM | Carrie Etter |
| TESSA STRICKLAND | THE GREEN MAN | Charles Causley |
| SIMON PETTER | YASMIN | James Elroy Flecker |
| DIANA JEATER | TBC | |
| JUDITH YOUNG | EIDOLA | Samuel Daniel |
| KATE ORCHARD | MOZART, FOR EXAMPLE | Mary Oliver |
| CHARLES HAYWARD | A VIEW FROM THE PARADES | Christopher Anstey |
| JANET CUNLIFFE-JONES | ATLAS | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| SHEILA KINSELLA | THE WHITEWASHED WALL | Thomas Hardy |
| RO EMSLEY | DUCKS | F.W.Harvey |
| PADDY DOYLE | HIGH FLIGHT | John Gillespie Magee |
23rd MARCH 2010 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | BEST ANSWER | Joyce Grenfell |
| JENNIE CLARK | SOMETHING BIG | Howard Simon |
| ALAN STAFFORD | A UNION MAN | Anon |
| ALISON MYERS | THE CASUALTIES WERE SMALL | May Hill |
| MAUREEN HILL-JONES | MIDDLE AGE | Patricia Beer |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | MULGA BILL'S BICYCLE | Banjo Paterson |
| MIKE CARPENTER | BLACKBIRD | Cedric Clayton |
| JO ROBERTS | MY LOVER | Wendy Cope |
| SYBIL DAVIES | DAFFODILS | William Wordsworth |
| ANN DAVENPORT | FOR YOU MUM | Anon |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | INVICTUS | W E Henley |
| BRUCE EDWARDS | THE IMMORTAL GARDENER | Nancy Byrd Turner |
| GILL STAFFORD | THE LARK ASCENDING | George Merdith |
| JENNIE CLARKE | BLACKBERRY PICKING | Seamus Heaney |
| ALAN STAFFORD | ACHILLES(FOR DAVID BECKHAM) | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ALISON MYERS | LIE IN THE DARK AND LISTEN | Noel Coward |
| MAUREEN HILL-JONES | QUIET NEIGHBOURS | Sylvia Townsend Warner |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | SLOW SPRING | Katherine Tynan |
| MIKE CARPENTER | JOURNEY'S END | Mollie Bolt |
| JO ROBERTS | KIPLING | Carol Ann Duffy |
| SYBIL DAVIES | TO DAFFODILS | Robert Herrick |
| ANN DAVENPORT | THERE IS A PLEASURE IN WET CLAY | Rudyard Kipling |
16th MARCH 2010 AT THE FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, MANCHESTER
Having experienced a Pass On A Poem event elsewhere, Shirley Nicholson felt that the concept would be well received in
Manchester, where poetry is so deeply embedded. The first reading was indeed a great success. It felt as if it had been going
for months. Dolores Long, who supported Shirley in establishing contact with people from all over Manchester, acted as a
very warm compere. The group proved to be a nice mix of ages and occupations, and it was good to have among the readers
one of Manchester's most eminent and thrilling poets, Linda Chase, who does so much to promote poetry in the city and
surrounds. Owing to the impending refurbishment of the Central Library, which will take several years, inexpensive or free
venues are now quickly booked up. If you have any suggestions for venues, please contact enquiries@passonapoem.com.
As soon as one is found, the date of the next reading will be announced.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| FRANCES STADLEN | A QUIET LIFE | Baron Wormser |
| KATH FRY | CARGOES | John Masefield |
| OLGA KENYON | FISH | Elizabeth Bishop |
| RACHEL DAVIES | BIRKDALE NIGHTINGALE | Jean Sprackland |
| OLGA KENYON (chosen by Alan Spenser) | POSTSCRIPT | Seamus Heaney |
| CATHY BRYANT | DADDY | Sylvia Plath |
| ALISON NICHOL | LAUGH AND BE MERRY | John Masefield |
| SAM O'CONNOR | SUCH CASUAL WISDOM | Robert Cochrane |
| DOLORES LONG | BLACKBERRY PICKING | Seamus Heaney |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | THIS DAY, AND PROBABLY TOMORROW ALSO | Mary Oliver |
| RUTH ABRAHAMS | THE SINGING CAT | Stevie Smith |
| IAN REED | MUSIC OF TIME | Joyce Reed |
| SAM OHANA | A KITE IS A VICTIM | Leonard Cohen |
| KEIR THOMAS | A SUBALTERN'S LOVE SONG | John Betjeman |
| LINDA CHASE | ANYONE LIVED IN A PRETTY HOW TOWN | e.e.cummings |
| JULIE JARMAN | GOD'S GRANDEUR | G.M.Hopkins |
| MARK ABRAHAM | TO BE A POET A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE | James Elroy Flecker |
9th February 2010 in NOTTING HILL, LONDON W 11
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| LINDA TAYLOR | VALENTINE | Carol Ann Duffy |
| CATHERINE MCCARTHY | SUZANNE | Leonard Cohen |
| WILLIAM BROOKFIELD | IN PRAISE OF FEELING BAD ABOUT YOURSELF | Wislawa Szymborska |
| SUSANNAH TARBUSH | BARE ALMOND TREES | D.H.Lawrence |
| ALEKA LIEVEN | THE TYGER | William Blake |
| TOBY AISBITT | HOMAGE TO GOA | Derek Mahon |
| CHRISTINA McCARTHY | A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM | Edgar Allan Poe |
| JO SANDERS | MOTHER SCRUBBING THE FLOOR | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| BRIAN LOONEY | THE IRISH ROVER | Traditional |
| JUDITH ELLIOT | THE FIRST GENIUSES | Billy Collins |
| ANNIE HENRY | FAILURE | Rupert Brooke |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | from LITTLE GIDDING, THE FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| PHILPPA FAWCETT | WHO DID WHICH | Ogden Nash |
| MATTHEW STADLEN | CARRION COMFORT | G.M.Hopkins |
| GILLIE HOWARTH | THE SOLITARY REAPER | William Wordsworth |
| MIKE MORRIS | CASCANDO | Samuel Beckett |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELL | CATSEYE WOMAN | Dennis Doyle |
| KATHY PHILPOT | WHEN MY PARENTS DANCED THE TANGO | Christopher Wiseman |
| TREVOR MOSTYN | LAST NIGHT I DREAMED THAT ANGELS STOOD WITHOUT MY DOOR | Hafez. trans Gertrude Bell |
| CATHERINE PORTEOUS | MY SOUL, THERE IS A COUNTRY | Henry Vaughan |
| ANNA DANGOOR | THE PLACE WHERE WE ARE RIGHT | Yehuda Amichai |
| KARINE CRABBE | A MAN DOESN'T HAVE TIME IN HIS LIFE | Yehuda Amichai |
| ROBINA ROSE | NOT I | Samuel Beckett |
4th February 2010 THE LIBRARY, SHEEN LANE CENTRE, RICHMOND, SURREY
This, the fourth reading at this lovely library, marked Pass On A Poem's first anniversary in the neighbourhood. Under the
unobtrusive but warm, sure and imaginative leadership of Kathy Philpot, Adrienne Jack and Kathy's husband, John, the
venue is going from strength to strength. There was a palpable air of enjoyment and expectation, and over 50 people
attended. The reading was remarkable for the mixture it contained of well known classics made utterly fresh for being read
with such devotion and intelligence and of other completely unknown poems by, in three instances, relatives or friends of
readers. There were plenty of amusing contributions as well as much irony to leaven the profundities and the melancholy.
Bernard Adams, the group's most sympathetic and skilled compere, started with part of a beautiful and characteristic
Machado elegy, some of which he read first in Spanish. Jeremy Preston, the lynchpin of the venue as librarian-host, followed
with the moving For Johnny , A Remembrance of the Battle of Britain. Oliver Kent's War, Anna Hearne's paired Angel to
Mortal and Mortal to Angel poems and Julian Cooke's Secrets In The Bush - the poems new to everybody - were received
with much appreciation, as was the poignant Australian ballad by Myra Morris, The Pallid Cuckoo. The latter was an
excellent counterpoint to Hardy's The Ruined Maid, read so well by Shiona Llewellyn. Mark Strand's Lines for Winter,
wonderfully read by Linda Taylor, Sally Hamwee's magical reading of Yeats' When You Are Old and Tom Stanier's revelatory
version of Auden's As I Walked Out...were all poems that led us through attention and longing to interior mystery.
Mireille Stanton and Anne Sawbridge were both on cracking form, doing full justice to Allan Ahlberg's Please Mrs Butler and
Sophie's Hannah's surrealistic excursion to an outlet of the Edinburgh Woollen Mill. Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings was
given a vivid, personally felt reading by Pat Tilley, an exile from Yorkshire and fellow traveller on north/ south railway lines.
Joy Catford evoked her own and others' childhoods very delicately with R.LStephenson's Envoys. Ozymandias lived again as
a warning for our soiled times thanks to Anne Blake, who brought him out loud and clear.Peter Hayward's wry,
conversational
reading of Frost's Mending Wall was superb. John Williams gave us a piercing, even chilling version of Auden's
The Unknown Citizen. The same passion to wake us up humanly and politically was evident in Tim Catchpole's heartfelt
rendering of Louis MacNeice's battle-cry Prayer Before Birth. Wordsworth's Lines composed a few miles above Tintern
Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July 13, 1798 is familar to many students of English literature,
though not necessarily well understood. Andrew Calder succeeded triumphantly in laying bare for us its beauty, its
drama and high moral seriousness. Roger Morsley Smith continues with his remarkable performances for Pass On A Poem's
London venues of parts of Four Quartets, on this occasion from East Coker. Once again he held us wrapt, surely taking us to
the heart of Eliot's vision. Amateur these events may be - indeed are proud to be - but it is hard to imagine a better, more
human evening's entertainment in all of London, perhaps even the world, and all for free and in the medium of poetry.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BERNARD ADAMS | FOR DON FRANCISCO DE LOS RIOS | Antonio Machado |
| JEREMY PRESTON | FOR JOHNNY | John Pudney |
| PEN KENT | WAR | Oliver Kent |
| JOY CATFORD | ENVOYS | R.L.Stephenson |
| PAT TILLEY | THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS | Philip Larkin |
| MIREILLE STANTON | PLEASE MRS BUTLER | Allan Ahlberg |
| LINDA TAYLOR | LINES FOR WINTER | Mark Strand |
| SHIONA LLEWELLYN | THE RUINED MAID | Thomas Hardy |
| ANNE SAWBRIDGE | IN WOKINGHAM ON BOXING DAY AT THE EDINBURGH WOOLEN MILL | Sophie Hannah |
| CAROLE ROGERSON | THE ANGEL TO THE MORTAL | Anna Hearne |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | from EAST COKER out of FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| SALLY HAMWEE | WHEN YOU ARE OLD | W.B.Yeats |
| ANNE BLAKE | OZYMANDIAS | P.B.Shelley |
| TIM CATCHPOLE | PRAYER BEFORE BIRTH | Louis MacNeice |
| JOHN WILLIAMS | THE UNKNOWN CITIZEN | W.H.Auden |
| ANDREW CALDER | from TINTERN ABBEY | William Wordsworth |
| PETER HAYWARD | MENDING WALL | Robert Frost |
| JOY MANNERS | THE PALLID CUCKOO | Myra Morris |
| TOM STANIER | AS I WALKED OUT ONE EVENING | W.H.Auden |
| ANTHONY HACKING | SECRETS IN THE BUSH | Julian Cooke |
26th JANUARY 2010 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | NOT MY BEST SIDE | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| LORRAINE COOK | SPARED | Wendy Cope |
| JENNIE CLARKE | AFTERNOON IN SCHOOL - THE LAST LESSON | D.H.Lawrence |
| ALAN STAFFORD | FAMILY ALBUM | Elizabeth Santos |
| ALISON MYERS | SPELLBOUND | Emily Bronte |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | THE LAVATORY ATTENDANT | Wendy Cope |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | ESCAPE AT BEDTIME | R.L.Stevenson |
| MIKE CARPENTER | THE EARLY MORNING RUSH | Tina Kugeneiks |
| JO ROBERTS | REFUGEE BLUES | W.H.Auden |
| SYBIL DAVIES | THE HOLY WAR | Rudyard Kipling |
| ANN DAVENPORT | THE SNOWDROP | Anna L Barbauld |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | A MUSICAL AT HOME | Dr E.V.Rien |
| GILL STAFFORD | TO A SNOWDROP | William Wordsworth |
| JENNIE CLARKE | TO HIS COY MISTRESS | Andrew Marvell |
| ALAN STAFFORD | A WINTRY SONNET | Christina Rossetti |
| ALISON MYERS | A WINTER'S TALE | D.H.Lawrence |
| MAUREEN HILL-JONES | EARLY MORNING FEED | Peter Redgrove |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | THE RAINBOW | Michael Forster |
| MIKE CARPENTER | WINDOWS | Cedric Clayton |
| JO ROBERTS | THE YELLOW PALM | Robert Minhinnick |
| SYBIL DAVIES | ROUNDABOUTS AND SWINGS | Patrick R |
| ANN DAVENPORT | THE WEIGHT OF NOTHING | Karl Kauter |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | TULLY LOE: TETE A TETE IN THE PARISH PRIEST'S PARLOUR | Paul Durkin |
16th December 2009 THE OXFAM BOOKSHOP,TURNHAM GREEN , LONDON W4
The Christmas gathering of this popular venue in West London was very well attended. People brought along some
wonderful poems, many of them new to the audience, some amusing, some very thought provoking and moving. Kathy
Hall recited Hopkins' Windhover with great devotion to the text, and Roger Morsley Smith's performance of Paul Jennings'
Galoshes was a tour de force. Everybody who read opened up their poems in a most remarkable way, including and perhaps
especially, some of the more familiar ones, such as Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts offered by John Williams. This is one of
the best things about Pass On A Poem readings, as is being introduced to as yet unread poets. Matt Sullivan, for example,
gave a memorable reading of Sunflower Sutra by Allen Ginsberg, a revelation for those who did not know his work. The
theme of Christmas was well represented too. The feeling at the end was that Susie, Sarah, and Jill, the manager of the
thriving Oxfam bookshop in which we are always made so very welcome, had created yet another great evening of poetry.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| JILL WHITE | IN 1999 from CLOSE TO THE SHORE | Anon |
| KATHY HALL | THE WINDHOVER | Gerard Manley Hopkins |
| DAWN BRANDL | APPLE BLOSSOM | Louis MacNeice |
| PETER HOWELL | CHRISTMAS | John Betjeman |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | GALOSHES | Paul Jennings |
| CLARE PHILBIN | FLANDERS' FIELD | John McCrae |
| SHIRLEY NICHOLSON | PRAYER | Imatz Dharker |
| CLARE WILLIAMSON | KING JOHN'S CHRISTMAS | A.A.Milne |
| JENNIFER | THE APPRENTICE'S SORCERER | Peter Porter |
| JOHN WILLIAMS | MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS | W.H.Auden |
| SARAH HEIMENDORF | THE INNOCENT'S SONG | Charles Causley |
| CATHERINE SULLIVAN | PHASES OF THE MOON | Elinor Wiley |
| SCOTT GRONMARK | CHRISTMAS TREES | Robert Frost |
| ANNE FARTHING | THE INTERVIEW | U.A.Fanthorpe |
| MATT SULLIVAN | SUNFLOWER SUTRA | Allen Ginsberg |
| JO SANDERS | PRAYER OF COMMENDATION TO OUR LADY OF CHARTRES | Charles Peguy |
| SUSAN STANLEY-CARROLL | A GIFT FROM THE STARS | John Rice |
15th October 2009, IN NOTTING HILL, LONDON W11
The Notting Hill group met again after, as was generally agreed, too long a break. The summer reading had been postponed
due to unforeseen circumstances. The poets and poems proposed were marvellously varied. Readers - young and older - read
with great passion, some in an intimate voice, some with the theatricality appropriate to the chosen poems by Allen Ginsberg,
Louis MacNeice and Rudyard Kipling. One of the most appreciated aspects of Pass On A Poem evenings is the way in
which completely amateur readers manage so often to bring vividly to life well known works by classic poets. Yeats, Milton,
John Masefield, Hardy, T.S.Eliot and Frost were all illuminated by being read in a relaxed and attentive way. Another
feature of the readings is the introduction they give to much less celebrated poems and poets, old and new. The
evening was rich in these.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| FRANCES STADLEN | THE POEM YOU ASKED FOR | Larry Levis |
| ANNIE HENRY | THE RAILWAY CHILDREN | Seamus Heaney |
| JOHN HENRY | THE 350S | Stephen Beal |
| HAZEL MORRIS | CARGOES | John Masefield |
| DIXIE CHASSAY | STORIES BECOME ONE | Anon |
| LOUISA PETO | THESE ARE THE HANDS | Michael Rosen |
| KATHY PHILPOT | MARGARET GILL'S QUIET LIFE | Christopher Wiseman |
| ALEKA LIEVEN | THE FARM WOMAN'S WINTER | Thomas Hardy |
| ROGER MORSLEY SMITH | from THE FOUR QUARTETS | T.S.Eliot |
| KARINE CRABBE | ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT | Robert Frost |
| TOMMY STADLEN | LURIANA LURILEE | Charles Elton |
| ELIZABETH RUSSELL | BAGPIPE MUSIC | Louis NacNeice |
| BRIAN LOONEY | THE LION FOR REAL | Allen Ginsberg |
| LUCINDA BARRY | REASON AND PASSION XV | Khalil Gibran |
| JANE DARWIN | TO MARGOT HEINEMANN | John Cornford |
| GILLIE HOWARTH | GUNGA DIN | Rudyard Kipling |
| ROBINA ROSE | from SAMSON AGONISTES | John Milton |
| WILLIAM STADLEN | THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION | W.B.Yeats |
8 OCTOBER 2009 THE LIBRARY, SHEEN LANE CENTRE, RICHMOND, SURREY
The third reading of the group in the library at the Sheen Lane Centre was again very well attended, by around 50 people.
Eight new readers were welcomed by organisers Kathy Philpot and Adrienne Jack. Jeremy Preston, the librarian, continues
to be extremely supportive. Bernard Adams acted as compere.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| BERNARD ADAMS | WHAT THEN | W.B.Yeats |
| JEREMY PRESTON | DULCE ET DECORUM EST | Wilfred Owen |
| ANNE BLAKE | THE QUEEN'S PICKLE | Christopher Matthew |
| JOY CATFORD | AUTUMN FIRES | R.L.Stephenson |
| JOHN WILLIAMS | FLANNAN ISLE | Wilfred Gibson |
| ALISON WILSON | IN SUMMER TIME ON BREDON | A.E.Housman |
| MIREILLE STANTON | LE CHALAND | Emile Verhaeren |
| FRANCESCA OWEN | MRS MIDAS | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ROGER MORSLEY-SMITH | GALOSHES | Paul Jennings |
| KATHLEEN SHERIDAN | TRIBE | monica arac de nyeko |
| TOM STANIER | THE ALCHEMIST | Francis Hope |
| JENNY BALDWIN | PROMETHEAN | Don Paterson |
| GRAHAME MONEY | CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW | A.B.Paterson |
| SALLY HAMWEE | IN TIME OF DAFFODILS | e.e.cummings |
| JOY MANNERS | CYNARA | Ernest Dowson |
| LOUISE MANNERS | HERO AND LEANDER | Christopher Marlowe |
| MONA ADAMS | JIM | Hilaire Belloc |
| ADRIENNE JACK | THE LAST POST | Carol Ann Duffy |
July 2009 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
The Bedford group, organised by Gill Stafford, is now very well established.
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | BEAUTY | Khalil Gibran |
| LORRAINE COOK | SUZANNAH | Leonard Cohen |
| JENNIE CLARKE | DESIDERATA | Max Erhmann |
| ALAN STAFFORD | THE EXECUTION | Alden Nowlan |
| MAUREEN HILL-JONES | WORDS, WIDE NIGHT | Carol Ann Duffy |
| MIKE CARPENTER | STONEHENGE | Siegfried Sassoon |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | NETTLES | Vernon Scannell |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | from MEDITATION NO. XVII | John Donne |
| JO ROBERTS | MOON LANDING | W.H.Auden |
| SYBIL DAVIES | from MORTE D'ARTHUR | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | THE SHOOTING OF DAN MCGREW | Robert Service |
| GILL STAFFORD | TEARS IDLE TEARS | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| LORRAINE COOK | A WOMAN'S WORK | Dorothy Nimmo |
| JENNIE CLARKE | THE OWL CRITIC | James T Fields |
| ALAN STAFFORD | TO THE ONE UPSTAIRS | Charles Simic |
| MAUREEN HILLS-JONES | THANKYOU NOTE | Dannie Abse |
| CYNTHIA MORE | LEAVING AND LEAVING YOU | Sophie Hannah |
| SALLY SCHOFIELD | REAL | Emily Dickinson |
| MIKE CARPENTER | LAST DAYS | Alison Norris |
| JO ROBERTS | THE MOON | P.B.Shelley |
| SYBIL DAVIES | THE LOTUS EATERS | Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL | Anon |
23rd June 2009 AT THE HOME OF GILLIAN STAFFORD IN BEDFORD
The Bedford group goes from strength to strength with monthly readings organised by Gill Stafford
| Reader | Poem | Author |
|---|---|---|
| GILL STAFFORD | PHENOMENAL WOMAN | Maya Angelou |
| LORRAINE COOK | SONNET 11 | Edna St Vincent Millay |
| JENNIE CLARKE | THE LITTLE BLACK BOY | William Blake |
| ALAN STAFFORD | THE BARN | Edmund Blunden |
| MIKE CARPENTER | THE END | Peter Halpin |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | WOODLAND BURIAL | Pam Ayres |
| JO ROBERTS | POLITICS | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ALISON MYERS | MORNING SONG | Sylvia Plath |
| ANN DAVENPORT | THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS | Rudyard Kipling |
| SYBIL DAVIES | ON MALVERN HILL | John Masefield |
| MAUREEN ATKINS | THE HIGHWAYMAN | Alfred Noyes |
| GILL STAFFORD | ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE | William Shakespeare |
| LORRAINE COOK | TITANIA'S BOWER | Willam Shakespeare |
| JENNIE CLARKE | AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ROADS | Padraic Colum |
| ALAN STAFFORD | O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN | Walt Whitman |
| CYNTHIA MOORE | HIGH FLIGHT (AN AIRMAN'S ECSTACY) | John Gillespie Magee |
| MIKE CARPENTER | AN ENDING | Wendy Cope |
| JO ROBERTS | POLITICS | W.B.Yeats |
| ALISON MYERS | THE WILD ROSE | Mary Webb |
| ANN DAVENPORT | DOG DAYS | Marion Elliot |
| SYBIL DAVIES | THE CHILTERNS | Rupert Brooke |