Graham Fawcett
writer, teacher, lecturer, translator and broadcaster
photo: Birgitta Johansson
"Graham creates a democratic space in which anyone present can contribute thoughts about the poems and the poet's ideas"
(Workshop participant)
e-mail: grahamkfawcett@googlemail.com telephone: 020 7405 3997
Graham Fawcett
writer, teacher, lecturer, translator and broadcaster
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Graham Fawcett provides courses, seminars, tutorials, lectures, poetry lunches and suppers, and other one-day events on reading and writing poetry in London and England.
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He has been a tutor for The Poetry School since 1997, devising and teaching new courses on poetry past and present from around the world. He has written and presented radio programmes about literature and music on BBC Radio 3 for many years.
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He studied Classics at Christ's Hospital, read Archaeology & Anthropology and English at Cambridge, and has worked for Southern Television, Southern Arts, the British Institute of Florence, the Arvon Foundation and Art History Abroad. He taught translation at Goldsmiths College for fifteen years from 1991, and now lectures on both poetry and translation at universities in the UK, Italy and Spain.
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He has been a mentor for Exiled Writers Ink, and is a trustee of Outside In World, the children's world literature charity, and President of the T S Eliot Society (UK) - www.eliotsociety.org.uk.
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He has lived in Italy and French Catalonia and now lives in London.
2013 plans include:
more of the Poetry Anniversary Sunday Lunches which have been so popular during 2012 - starting in January - the next is on June 2nd (D H Lawrence);
a new pub series in the early evening on Mondays, Talking About Poetry, starting in January;
a new series on poetry, the novel and art, Dramatic Encounters, starting in January;
readings in Italian from Dante's Divine Comedy in Southwark Cathedral at the Poet In The City Dante Celebration evening in April;
new dates for days on all four of Eliot's Quartets on location in England, starting in May;
a ten-week poetry translation course for The Poetry School starting in May: some places still available - details click here on http://www.poetryschool.com/courses-workshops/index.php?adv=&fdf=&phrase=fawcett&type0=0&x=92&y=23;
The Seven Olympians lecture on Pablo Neruda at the Bridlington Poetry Festival on Saturday June 15 at 12 noon - full details, including how to book, at http://www.bridlington-poetry-festival.com/programme.php;
a weekend poetry, prose and art course, The Big Blue, based in Mousehole, Cornwall, and including a trip to St Ives - 27-29 September for the newly established Artscircle (whose website, at www.artscircle.net, can be reached direct by clicking here. The 2013 programme will begin with An Evening Reading With Hugo Williams on June 27th at the London Sketch Club in Chelsea;
two new 2-day residential courses at Othona West Dorset in the second week of October.
Poetry In Silence (http://www.othona-bb.org.uk/event-pages-5/event-244-8-to-10)
and Poetry and Strength (http://www.othona-bb.org.uk/event-pages-5/event-245-11-to-13-oct/).
For details, click on live underlined links in brackets immediately above;
and a tour of England and Wales for the Seven Olympians poetry series with booking already open, or soon to open, for dates in Lewes, Oxford, West Bay (Bridport), Farnham, Taunton, Greenwich, Ipswich, Bridlington and York, starting in January. More information on all of these can be found on this page and the 7 Olympians tour page - click here on http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/7-olympians-tour.htm.
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Graham Fawcett has edited Anvil New Poets (Anvil Press, 1990), is co-editor, with Mimi Khalvati, of the second Poetry School anthology, Entering The Tapestry (Enitharmon, 2003), adjudicated the Suffolk Poetry Society's 2008 George Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition, has taught week-long residential courses for Christopher North at Almassera Vella, Relleu (Alicante), and contributed to the 2009 celebrations in Woodbridge to mark the Edward Fitzgerald bicentenary.
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2010 collaborations included Pepys 350, the first Chipping Campden Literature Festival on Clare, Eliot, and Owen, the debut of Art House Holidays in Atlantic Spain, and a 15-month series of monthly supper lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy between September 2010 and December 2011 in London and available for tour.
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During the summer and autumn of 2011 Graham taught English poetry in London and Venetian history and culture in Venice to undergraduates from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, and was a language coach in Italian to the BBC Singers for the 2011 BBC Proms.
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Booking now open for new on-location days for all 4 of Eliot's Quartets in 2013
1. Burnt Norton 2. East Coker 3. The Dry Salvages 4. Little Gidding
Saturday 14 Sept 2013 Saturday 16 November 2013 Saturday 1st June 2013 Saturday 25 May 2013 details click here details click here details, click here click here for more
tickets available now for all four days
"Your Four Quartets days are memorable and special".
(Melissa Lloyd)
For Spring and Summer holidays in Devon this year, go to a brand-new website at http://www.flearcountry.com
COMING UP NEXT
Thursday 23rd May 2013, 645pm for 7pm-830pm
(please book in advance)
Seven Olympians
latest in this series drawing audiences of more than 30
with Graham Fawcett
Made In Greenwich
324 Creek Road, Greenwich, London, SE10 9SW
Emily Dickinson
"A wonderful evening of Emily Dickinson, questions and a meal together. The evening was a huge success".
(Katrina Dennison after Emily Dickinson Night in Farnham)
"Thank you for another compelling lecture. There is a certain new slant of light in which I now look at Emily Dickinson's poetry, thanks to your inspired evocation of her as a woman of great strength, even volcanic power."
(Romee Tilanus, after the London Emily Dickinson Night)
“A really excellent evening, much enjoyed and appreciated by all those who have been in touch since. People were rapt, attentive and enthusiastic".
(Liza Bingley Miller after Emily Dickinson Night in York)
I enjoyed this lecture so much that I have booked a trip to Amherst this summer to go to Emily Dickinson's family home, such was the impact her poetry had on my life!
(Emma Jane Turner, after the first Emily Dickinson Night, in Central London)
"I was royally entertained"
(Annie Freud, at West Bay Byron Night in April)
Tickets £10 (includes light buffet and drinks afterwards)
Some tickets still available at the moment
To book, call
0208 293 9823
Website: click here
22 tickets already sold, 13 left at the moment
Watch this space. These totals may change daily.
Saturday 25th May 2013 from 10am
for 1030am-430pm
(please book in advance)
Poetry Places 5
Eliot's Little Gidding Day
Ferrar House and St John's Church, Little Gidding
Cambridgeshire PE28 5RJ
What brought T S Eliot to the village of Little Gidding in 1936, and why, 6 years later, did he decide to make it the setting and presiding spirit of the fourth and last of his celebrated Four Quartets ?
On location in Ferrar House and Little Gidding Church, Graham Fawcett will seek to recreate the poet’s own experience of this place, and point to clues in the poet’s life and work and his choice of moods and images, to help unravel the mysteries of Eliot’s Little Gidding.
Highlights of the morning and afternoon of this Spring day will include a close reading, one by one spaced through the day, of the five ‘movements’ of what is widely believed to be his finest work.
For full details, including how to book, click here
16 tickets already sold, 8 left at the moment
Watch this space. These totals may change daily.
HOW OTHERS HAVE EXPERIENCED ELIOT'S LITTLE GIDDING DAY
It was a great session – so lively and enlightening, and you were so informative. I hadn’t read Eliot in any detail for years and years, and it made me aware of so much about his writing, and anxious to go back and read more. You gave us all so much to think about and mull over and go off and pursue further. Thanks for that. [What I realised when re-reading the Quartets on the train(s) up to Huntingdon was just how much of Eliot has become part of my mental landscape – a bit like the Bible and Shakespeare.. I kept finding myself muttering, “Oh, of course, that’s where that quotation comes from!”
Joan McGavin
It was a most enjoyable and stimulating occasion, and I especially appreciated your skill and sensitivity in addressing different perspectives and contributions given. I am the person who said nothing ...but I hope learned much!
Anne Ackroyd
Gift Certificates and Vouchers
2013
Paul Skirrow – a view from Little Gidding
Gift Certificates
Treat someone to a Poetry Anniversary Lunch, a Talking About Poetry Supper, an Eliot Quartet Day in the country, a Seven Olympians poetry lecture in or outside London, or one of the other events in 2013 already posted on Graham’s Events Calendar at http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/events.htm *, and send your cheque for the cost of the event , made payable to Graham Fawcett, to him at: 2 Harpur Mews, London, WC1N 3PE. Please mark the back of your cheque with the name and date of the event. Graham will then send you a Certificate for that event to forward to the person you want to treat (remember to let me have her or his name !) and an e-ticket for the day.
Gift Vouchers
If you prefer, you can purchase gift vouchers, which can then be used towards the cost of any event *, in multiples of £5 up to £50.
*Please note that this gift certificate and voucher scheme cannot be extended to include
Poetry School or The Course sessions – yet !
AFTER ELIOT'S EAST COKER DAY IN 2007
Many many thanks for a wonderful and illuminating day in East Coker. I am sure Eliot would have approved. Rarely do I ever get the chance to analyse a pome in such depth . . .
James Crowden (Crewkerne)
AFTER ELIOT'S EAST COKER DAY IN 2012
Thank you so much for an excellent session on Eliot & East Coker. It tied the threads of poet and place, and taught me a lot that I didn't know: it was entertaining as well as informative.
Richard Gaskell (London)
"A terrific day out"
(Participant after Eliot's Burnt Norton Day on 22nd September 2012)
Photo: Paul Skirrow
Reading and discussing Eliot's poem 'Little Gidding' in the Eliot Room at Ferrar House, Little Gidding
with undergraduates from Westmont College, Santa Barbara
To find out more about Ferrar House, including how to stay there, click now on: http://www.ferrarhouse.co.uk
If you would like to bring a group of adults, undergraduates or sixth-formers to Little Gidding for your own study day on T S Eliot's poem, write to Graham Fawcett at grahamkfawcett@gmail.com
SEVEN OLYMPIANS
N TOUR IN ENGLAND AND WALES 2012-2013
"In his Seven Olympians series, Graham wants to give audiences who love poetry a fresh experience of each poet which he hopes will feel more like listening to a live radio programme with readings rather than to a lecture, blowing away some of the more daunting associations we have with that word . . ."
LATEST NEWS ON DATES AND VENUES - THIS CHART IS BEING ADDED TO WEEK BY WEEK
DATES ARE ON FOR:
Lewes (Sussex)
Ovid
Pablo Neruda
Baudelaire
Pushkin
Byron
Emily Dickinson
Chaucer
The Lewes Arms - Mount Place, Lewes, Sussex, BN7 1YH
Thursday 17th January 2013 at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
Thursday 24th January at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
Thursday 21st March at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
Thursday 11th April at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
Thursday 9th May at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
NEXT:
Thursday 6th June at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
To book Byron, buy your tickets at The Lewes Arms or click here
Thursday 11th July at 630pm (followed by supper at 8pm)
To book Chaucer, buy your tickets at The Lewes Arms or click here
Oxford
Ovid
Chaucer
Byron
Pushkin
The Friends Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3LW
Tuesday 22nd January 2013 at 630pm (doors open 6pm)
Thursday 7th February at 630pm (doors open 6pm)
Thursday 21st February at 630pm (doors open 6pm)
Thursday 7th March at 630pm (doors open 6pm)
Dates after Easter for lectures 5, 6 and 7 - on Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson and Pablo Neruda - will be announced soon
York
Emily Dickinson
Spelman's Bookshop, 70 Micklegate, York YO1 6LF
Wednesday 17th April 2013, 715pm for a 730pm start (ends 9pm)
West Bay, near Bridport (Dorset)
Pablo Neruda
Chaucer
Byron
Ovid
Pushkin
Emily Dickinson
Baudelaire
Sladers Yard, West Bay, Bridport, Dorset DT6 4EL
Thursday 31st January 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
Wednesday 13th March 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
Friday 19th April 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
Thursday 16th May 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
http://sladersyard.wordpress.com/graham-fawcett-on-ovid/
NEXT:
Thursday 13th June 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
To book tickets for the lecture-performance with or without supper: telephone 01308 459511
Thursday 18th July 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
Website and booking details coming
Thursday 5th September 2013 at 630pm followed by supper
Website and booking details coming
Taunton (Somerset)
Pablo Neruda
Brendon Books & Maps,Old Brewery Buildings, Bath Place, Taunton TA1 4ER
Thursday March 14th 2013, 645pm for a 7pm start (ends 830pm)
Watch this space for news of the next lecture
Farnham (Surrey)
Emily Dickinson
Pablo Neruda
Ovid
Byron
Pushkin
Baudelaire
Chaucer
The Hop Blossom, Long Garden Walk, Farnham, GU9 7HX
Monday 28th January 2013, 7pm for a 715pm start (ends 845pm)
Monday 25th February 2013, 615 for a 630pm start (ends 8pm)
Monday 18th March 2013, 615 for a 630pm start (ends 8pm)
Monday 22nd April 2013, 615 for a 630pm start (ends 8pm) followed by choice of curry supper if you book in advance
Monday 13th May 2013, 615 for a 630pm start (ends 8pm)
with Valentina Merritt reading Pushkin in Russian
NEXT:
Monday 17th June 2013, 615 for a 630pm start (ends 8pm)
with Jo Beckett-King reading Baudelaire
followed by supper if you book in advance
To book tickets for the lecture (£10 each, or £18.95 with choice of curry supper), send or deliver a cheque, payable to Graham Fawcett, to Jenny Rivarola, 91 West Street, Farnham, GU9 7EN (just opposite the library) marking your cheque with the name of that night's poet and SO5F and enclosing a note of your e-mail address, and, if booking supper, your choice of either beef curry or vegetable curry, and your e-ticket will be sent to you.
Or just come along on the night - unsold tickets for the lecture only will be on sale at the door.
Monday 15th July 2013, 615 for a 630pm start (ends 8pm)
with actor Sue Aldred reading Chaucer
followed by supper if you book in advance - as above
Greenwich
Pablo Neruda
Emily
Dickinson
Made In Greenwich Gallery, 324 Creek Road,
London SE10 9SW
Wednesday 1st May 2013, 630pm for 645pm (ends 815pm)
NEXT:
Thursday 23rd May 2013, 630pm for 7pm
with actor Sue Aldred reading Emily Dickinson
(light buffet with drinks at 830pm included in the ticket)
20 tickets already sold,15 left at the moment
Watch this space. These totals may change daily.
To book tickets (£10, includes light buffet with drinks), send your cheque, made payable to Greenwich Landscape Artists, to MIG, 324 Creek Road, Greenwich SE10 9SW.
Or phone the Gallery, 020 8293 9823
or email info@madeingreenwich.co.uk
Live link to Made in Greenwich, click here
Ipswich
Emily Dickinson
NEXT:
Unitarian Meeting House, Friars' Street, Ipswich, IP1 1TD
Saturday 8th June 2013, 5pm-7pm
For details and to book, click here
Bridlington (Yorkshire)
Pablo Neruda
Bridlington Poetry Festival 2013
Sewerby Hall, Church Ln, Sewerby, Bridlington YO15 1EA
Saturday 15th June 2013, 12 noon-130pm
To book, click here at http://www.bridlington-poetry-festival.com/programme.php
Full details on the above can be found by clicking on this link: http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/7-olympians-tour.htm
PLANS ARE ONGOING FOR:
Bath Under discussion Burrowbridge (Somerset) A possibility for later in 2013 - being discussed with venue Amersham A possibility for later in 2013 under discussion If you would like Seven Olympians to come to your part of England or Wales, write to Graham at: grahamkfawcett@gmail.com or telephone him at 0207 405 3997
PROGRAMME
Graham Fawcett's acclaimed lecture series with readings
SEVEN OLYMPIANS
Seven Olympians 1
Ovid
click here for extract
"A real tour de force. West Bay metamorphosed into a Roman drinking den. Hexameters at dawn.
Excellent. I learnt a lot".(James Crowden, after West Bay Ovid night)
"Gripping".
(Phil Manning at the London Ovid Night)
"A wonderful lecture last night, both informative
and entertaining. I was fascinated to learn about the
forgotten female poets who translated him”.
(Sally Jenner after Ovid Night in Lewes on 17th January)
I really enjoyed Ovid. These lectures are so worth pushing’.
(Stephen Yeo, after Ovid Night in Oxford)
Seven Olympians 2
Chaucer
with the actor Sue Aldred
"You made my mind dance".
(Carla Sheills Steenkamp)
"You gave Chaucer to us not only with a huge breadth of knowledge but managed to present the entire subject
as a great romp through the Middle Ages"
(Caroline Vero)
"How much I enjoyed the Chaucer evening ! My knowledge of Chaucer was minimal; however, your talk, aided by Sue's excellent reading in Middle English of the texts, has made me really interested, and I feel equipped now to begin reading Chaucer myself. You effectively shone a light across a dark land and I now have the paths mapped out, so I can, and want to, explore what was a hidden continent before. I really want more people to hear you and learn more of the wonderful rich literary heritage we all share!"
(Hanne Busck-Nielsen at Oxford Chaucer Night, 7th February 2013)
Seven Olympians 3
Byron
"So rich in content"
(Member of the audience)
"Byron lived fast and died young. Graham brought the poet to life again for one extraordinary evening of poetry, politics and adventure. It was wonderful."
(Lucy Moy-Thomas at London Byron Night)
"I was royally entertained".
(Annie Freud, after Byron Night in Lewes)
Thank you for your wonderful talk on Byron at the Hopblossom in Farnham. I found myself gripped and enthralled and am so pleased to have finally understood why my late mother was so besotted with Byron. Thank you for revealing why and how his work should be approached. Can't wait, now, for some time to sit down and enjoy what I've missed all these years!
(Jane Lees, at Farnham Byron Night)
Seven Olympians 4
Pushkin
"I was so uplifted by your lecture on Pushkin that I am now hugely looking forward to the presentation on Baudelaire".
(Sieglinde Ward, after Farnham Pushkin Night)
"How much I enjoyed the evening ! Your lecture was brilliant”.
(Valentina Merritt, after Farnham Pushkin Night)
"Thank you for a sensational evening of Pushkin- a great ”performance” and an added bonus having your two charming colleagues. I was personally thrilled to hear these lyrical voices complementing yours because I had read that it can sometimes be difficult to fully appreciate Pushkin in translation.Both your rendering, and the translations that you chose, dovetailing so beautifully with Valentina and her colleague’s reading, proved that Pushkin is most accessible and hugely enjoyable."
(Sue Hicks, after Farnham Pushkin Night)
"A most stimulating evening. I am so glad I came".
(Jennifer Anderson, after the London Pushkin Night)
"Thank you again for an incredibly interesting and informative lecture"
(Svetlana Calladine, after the Lewes Pushkin Night)
"Particularly involving and pleasurable".
Member of the audience after the Lewes (Pushkin Night)
Seven Olympians 5
Baudelaire
"I was enthralled by Graham Fawcett's talk on Baudelaire. He painted such vivid pictures with words, that you felt you understood the troubled poet and essayist, and the 'modern' influences of Paris in the 1800s that had shaped his life, loves and work. Graham drew the listener into the world of the poet with such skill that, despite no previous knowledge of the subject and the sometimes complex nature of his work, I was totally at ease with Baudelaire's highly unique style. Several pieces were delivered in full in the original French, allowing the music and rhythm of the lines to be appreciated, before an equally entertaining translation was given. A thoroughly enjoyable evening".
(Meg Depla-Lake, at Baudelaire Night in Lewes)
"I want to say how much I enjoyed your lecture last night; it set me thinking.... and this is always a welcome thing".
(Audience member)
Seven Olympians 6
Emily Dickinson
"A wonderful evening of Emily Dickinson, questions and a meal together. The evening was a huge success".
(Katrina Dennison after Emily Dickinson Night in Farnham)
"Thank you for another compelling lecture. There is a certain new slant of light in which I now look at Emily Dickinson's poetry, thanks to your inspired evocation of her as a woman of great strength, even volcanic power."
(Romee Tilanus, after the London Emily Dickinson Night)
“A really excellent evening, much enjoyed and appreciated by all those who have been in touch since. People were rapt, attentive and enthusiastic". (Liza Bingley Miller after Emily Dickinson Night in York)
I enjoyed this lecture so much that I have booked a trip to Amherst this summer to go to Emily Dickinson's family home, such was the impact her poetry had on my life!
(Emma Jane Turner, after the first Emily Dickinson Night, in Central London)
Seven Olympians 7
Neruda
"Inspiring and brilliant. An enthralling evening"
(Anna Powell, after the West Bay Neruda Night on 31st January)
"Outstanding"
(John Taylor, after the West Bay Neruda Night on 31st January)
"Graham Fawcett is very good indeed. He has a marvellous knack of opening up a poet's life and instantly taking you on a colourful voyage through their life and work. Very illuminating”. (James Crowden, after West Bay’s Neruda Night on 31st January)
"Splendid".
(George Beckmann, after London's Neruda Night)
"You took a unique approach, sent me in directions I hadn't expected and left me wanting to discover more for myself".
(Christine Murphy, after the Lewes Neruda Night on 24th January)
"THANK YOU so much for such a mesmerising evening last night in Taunton.
My friend and I left buzzing with delight and enormously stimulated to read more
of Pablo Neruda's work.
Please do come back with the six other Olympians!"
(Jane Hole, at Neruda Night in Taunton)
(These lectures first given at St Olave's, Hart Street
between January and July 2012 and then at The Poetry School and The Rugby Tavern in London)
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Graham Fawcett is currently planning a tour of these lectures in England and Wales during the autumn and winter of 2012-13.
For full details, click here:
If your city or town is not yet covered by the tour and you would like to stage one or more of the lectures at a venue near you, telephone Graham on 020 7405 3997 or write to him at grahamkfawcett@gmail.com
From the very early days, when you first projected up the Thomas Wyatt poem about a hart and Anne Boleyn on a screen at Somerset House, and then the other reading courses, and the seminars, you have helped me to read poetry and I have a learnt such a lot from you.
I just enjoy the window it has opened onto a different world, and the friends and connections I have made through poetry.
(Anne Boileau)
“Loved the Plath-Hughes Day last summer – I went straight to the Birthday Letters on my shelf and read it from cover to cover”. (Kathy Wrightson)
ONGOING NEW SERIES
Poetry Anniversary Lunches
Really enjoyed this lunchtime, led in an insightful and inclusive way. Good to talk poetry with others.
(Sue Williamson, of Poetry Anniversary Lunch 1)
Poetry Anniversary Lunches
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Sunday 2nd June 2013
Empire (upstairs) Bar, The Lamb,
94 Lamb's Conduit Street,
London WC1
12 noon for 1230 - 3pm
D H Lawrence
To mark the centenary of the publication in 1913 of D H Lawrence's first collection, Love Poems and Others, an exploration of one of the best poems from that collection:
'End of Another Home-Holiday'
For the text of the poem, click here.
Tickets £10 (excluding lunch)
To book, send your cheque, payable to Graham Fawcett, to him at 2 Harpur Mewes, London, WC1N 3PE, marking the back of your cheque PAL14, and your e-ticket will be sent to you.
Tickets available
Picking up and reading the poems each time there has been an anniversary lunch, and then actually coming to the lunch and participating in the sense of aliveness which permeates the room during the session, has been an experience which has enabled me to believe once again that life is real, that it has a meaning, and that those things which I once held so dear, but have now seemingly forgotten, are still there, but just hidden from view. Finding myself wanting to speak, wanting to participate, caring what a poet might have wanted to convey to us all, has been something I thought I might never do again, and has helped me to believe that life is indeed more powerful than death, and indeed, that there is a future.
(Jeannie Cohen, of Poetry Anniversary Lunches 1-4)
Poetry Anniversary Lunches
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Sunday 27th October 2013
The Royal Oak, 44 Tabard Street,
London SE1 4JU
Sappho
To mark the 2625th anniversary of the latest probable year of her death in 612BC
Watch this space for the poems selected for this Lunch.
CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ D H LAWRENCE'S POEM 'END OF ANOTHER HOME-HOLIDAY'
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7jnE-LDoQggC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&dq=end+of
+another+home+holiday+lawrence&source=bl&ots=vNxUXOi8mU&sig=EYTBTYW4t1avvWbXMe698O6ZTkE&hl=en#v=onepage&q=end%20of%20another%20home%20holiday%20lawrence&f=false
“Warmth, humanity, passion and erudition which fitted the presentation naturally without drawing attention to itself." (George Beckmann, of John Clare Day in Helpston)
“A voice you could eat with a spoon, wonderful, I loved him reading, I came specially." (Blind member of audience at Lyme ArtsFest)
A commission in the autumn of 2011 from Andrew Baker of the Middlesex University BA Hons. Illustration course to lecture at the Hendon Campus on 'The Haunts of the Poets in London' helped inspire the exhibition of new work by Middlesex illustrators at The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden.
Poetry & Autobiography, a 12-unit online writing course for £15 by Graham Fawcett is now downloadable from the Poetry School
Graham Fawcett has just finished re-editing this course and has brought all of the web-links up to date. Watch this space for confirmation that the new version has been launched online.
"The online course materials are excellent and will provide much future stimulus for poetry" (Miriam Patrick)
Graham gave the 2011 Annual Lecture to the Guild of Psychotherapists, entitled Reading, Writing, Groups and Selfhood.
2012 appearances have included the Seven Olympians supper lecture series at St Olave's Hart Street, London, EC3, repeated during the summer at The Poetry School in Lambeth and The Rugby Tavern in Holborn, and at the inaugural Brympton Festival of Literature, Music and Art at Brympton D'Evercy, near Yeovil, Somerset.
Playing Lives, an exciting new lecture series on music with soloists in live performance is planned for St Olave's, Hart Street in 2013. Details coming over the next few weeks.
Click here on [events calendar] to get full details on noticeboard and other events
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NOW PLANNED FOR 2013
NEW POETRY DAY IN THE POETRY PLACES SERIES
Poetry Places 12 - Byron at Newstead Abbey
This day is being arranged and details will be posted on this page soon.
If you would like to be kept directly informed about the date and plans for the day, please e-mail Graham at
