2nd Poetry Slam! (19.2.2021) Notes
a romantic / Romantic session
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, WB Yeats (Marian Carroll)
I Carry your Heart, ee cummings (Rosie Walker)
The Good Morrow, John Donne (Alan Chacon)
Thoughts on Love, ?? (Ann Sulston)
The Darling Letters, Carol Ann Duffy (Roz Watts)
When you are Old, WB Yeats
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love, Christopher Marlowe (Mary Kitchen)
On Comparing my Husband to Robbie Burns, Pam Ayres
She Walks in Beauty, Byron (Heather Cresswell)
Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy
To Celia, Ben Johnson (Lesley Brain)
we especially enjoyed Lesley giving us this twice, the second time as someone addressing a Celia with halitosis!
Shake Hands, AE Houseman
Scissors; Dog in the Playground, Allan Ahlberg (Anne Matthias)
Anne offered us a refreshing contrast at this stage of our rich fare
Ballad of the Londoner, James Elroy Flecker (David Carroll)
The Cockney Amorist, John Betjeman
Tribute to a Well-loved Dog (Ann Williams)
Soothing and Awful, UA Fanthorpe (Pattie Mitchell)
Another invigorating change of focus!
When we Two Parted, Byron (Bridget Berrecloth)
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/lord_byron%20/poems/5966
Jenny ??
Not You Basil, Pam Ayres (Terry Matthias)
Sea Fever, John Masefield (Sylvia Martin)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree, WB Yeats