CELEBRATING WORLD POETRY DAY ON 21 MARCH 2023

with a “Poetry, Ploughman’s and Plonk” evening


This annual celebration of World Poetry Day began in 2021, on Zoom, during the Covid 19 lockdowns. But this year, for the first time, members and friends gathered at the President’s home for ‘live’ poetry readings.

It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening with a ploughman’s supper and, of course, plenty of ‘plonk’.

The event raised £100 for the Croydon Health Charity, which the Club is currently supporting.

Thanks go to Sue Wragg for kindly arranging the programme of readings, details of which are below.

Order of Reading / Themes

Places

01.

Graham Harker

 Seaside Golf

John Betjeman

02.

Barbara Harker

Prologue spoken by Peggy Ashcroft at the opening of the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, 1962

Love

03.

Patricia Painting

A Subaltern’s Love Song

John Betjeman

04.

Richard Wragg

To His Coy Mistress

Andrew Marvell

Friendship

05.

Mary Bishop

Bonds of Friendship

Craig Burkholder

06.

Patricia Painting

Break, Break, Break

Alfred Lord Tennyson

07.

Joe Trickey

Stop all The Clocks

W H Auden

Finance

08.

Ian Wesson

Lines Written on a Banknote

Robbie Burns

A taste of Spanish

09.

Pilar Wesson

Tengo ei caballo en la purerta

B R E A K

Some light relief

01.

Graham Harker

A selection from Roald Dahl, Ogden Nash and Spike Milligan

02.

Barbara Harker

I am going to be surgically enhanced

Pam Ayres

Nature/Animals

03.

Mary Bishop

The Ballad of Rum

Peter Wolveridge

04.

Sue Wragg

The Snake

D H Lawrence

05.

Ian Wesson

The Tyger

William Blake

Light philosophical

06.

Joe Trickey

Days

Philip Larkin

07.

Sue Wragg

Doggerel for a Senior Citizen

W H Auden

08.

Richard Wragg

The Sunset poem from Under Milkwood

Dylan Thomas

Death

09.

Joe Trickey

Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight

Dylan Thomas

10.

Joe Trickey

The Hearse Song

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