Remember, remember the 5th of November

An evening of poetry


It had been planned to hold this event at a member's home, but in the end we all agreed to hold it via Zoom (as we had done earlier this year). But this did not detract from what was a most enjoyable evening.

There were 11 of us in all, and thanks go to Richard Ford for putting together the programme, below.

Theme

Poem

Author

Chosen and Read by

Alienation

Gunpowder Plot

Vernon Scannell

Anne Ford

The Light-Keeper

R. L. Stevenson

David Bishop

Home Thoughts from Abroad

Browning

Mary Bishop

Autumn

Autumn Fires

R. L. Stevenson

Julia Spinks

October

Dylan Thomas

Sue Wragg 

Ode to Autumn

Keats

Richard Ford

Observation

Westminster Bridge

Wordsworth

Richard Wragg

Leisure

W. H Davies

Graham Harker

The Falcon to the Falconer

J. Steffen

Patricia Painting

The Third Kissing Gate

T. Hardy

Chosen by Chris Dighton

Read by Anne Ford

Our Earlier Years

Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll

David Bishop

Skimbleshanks

T.S. Eliot

Mary Bishop

The Highwayman

Alfred Noyes

Julia Spinks

Harkers’ Kipling

Tommy

Rudyard Kipling

Barbara Harker

If

Rudyard Kipling

Graham Harker

The Road through the Woods  

Rudyard Kipling

Barbara Harker

Bridging the Gap

Five Car Family

Roger McGough

Patricia Painting

Journey of the Magi

T. S. Eliot

Richard Ford

The Wragg’s

Second poems

The Peasant

R S Thomas

Richard Wragg

Batter my heart, three-person’d God

John Donne

Sue Wragg

 

If Time Permits

(which it did)

To a Mouse

Robbie Burns

David Bishop

Remember

Christina Rossetti

Julia Spinks

Naming of Parts

Henry Reed

Barbara Harker

The Sun God

Doris Baker

Patricia Painting

Have a Nice Day

Spike Milligan

Graham Harker

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