NEW OCCASIONAL SERIES
Poetry Anniversary Lunches
1
(repeated)
Southwark
Sunday 11th March
12 noon for 1230pm-3pm
De La Mare's 'The Listeners' (1912)
The Harvey Room, Royal Oak, 44 Tabard Street, London, SE1 4JU
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10 tickets sold, 9 available at the moment
£10 (excluding lunch)
To mark the centenary of the publication in 1912 of Walter de la Mare's poem 'The Listeners', Graham Fawcett will from 1230pm to 130pm talk about the background to the poem and the moment in the poet's life when he wrote it, read the poem line by line, and then open it up for discussion before the arrival of lunch (130pm-3pm). We will have exclusive use of the Harvey Room (upstairs), and lunch can be pre-ordered.
Details - click on
http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/events.htm#pal1rep
Menu choices to follow soon
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Poetry Anniversary Lunches
1
Bloomsbury
Sunday 19th February
12 noon for 1230pm-3pm
SOLD OUT
De La Mare's 'The Listeners' (1912)
To mark the centenary of the publication in 1912 of Walter de la Mare's poem 'The Listeners', Graham Fawcett will from 1230pm to 130pm talk about the background to the poem and the moment in the poet's life when he wrote it, read the poem line by line, and then open it up for discussion before the arrival of lunch (130pm-3pm). We will have exclusive use of the Empire (upstairs) Bar, where drinks can be purchased and lunch pre-ordered between 12 noon and 1230pm.
Empire (upstairs) Bar, The Lamb,
94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1
£10 (excluding lunch)
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calendar]
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Poetry Anniversary Lunches
2
Bloomsbury
Sunday 25th March
12 noon for 1230pm-3pm
Derek Walcott's first collection to
appear in published book form
'In A Green Night' (1962)
Poetry Anniversary Lunch 2 looks not at a single poem but at a first collection. As a 19-year-old, Derek Walcott wasn't prepared to wait for someone else to publish him. So he borrowed $200 to print his first collection, 25 Poems, which he then sold on the street in Castries, the town in St Lucia where he had been born. His next, and first public, collection, In A Green Night (1962), with its reflections on the Caribbean and colonialism, catapulted him over the horizon and into the international public eye. But why ? What is it about these poems that Jonathan Cape could be so sure of him ?
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of In A Green Night, Graham Fawcett will from 1230pm to 130pm talk about the background to the book and the years in the poet's life during which he wrote the poems in it; focus on two or three of them and read them line by line; and then open the session up for discussion of these and other poems from the collection before the arrival of lunch (130pm-3pm). We will have exclusive use of the Empire (upstairs) Bar, where drinks can be purchased and lunch pre-ordered between 12 noon and 1230pm.
Empire (upstairs) Bar, The Lamb,
94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1
£10 (excluding
lunch)
Booking opens 14th January 2012
Details - click on
http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/events.htm#pal2dw
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