Dear Poetry Friends
SEPTEMBER 2025 NEWSLETTER
LIVE IN LONDON
GRAHAM’S POETRY EVENINGS RETURN TOTHE LAMB PUB IN BLOOMSBURY
Welcoming you to the upstairs bar where for years we used to have a weekly audience of 25 or more talking about poetry.
Tuesday 30 September 2025, from 630pm for 7pm (till 915pm)
Empire Bar, The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit St, London WC1N 3LZ
POETRY AND HOPE
An evening devoted to reading and talking together about a contrasting batch of poems by distinguished poets which help us build a picture of what hope is and how a poem can change the way we feel.
Gillian Clarke, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, Omar Khayyam, Elinor Morton Wylie, Pablo Neruda, William Shakespeare, Wislawa Szymborska and Alfred Tennyson
BOOKING FOR POETRY AND HOPE OPEN NOW. CLICK HERE AT:
https://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/event/poetryandhopeeveningatthelamb-2-2
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If you are writing . . .
Graham continues to read, comment on, and give tutorials for typescripts of poetry and prose, including collections. Contact him if you would be interested in this for yourself or anyone else at [email protected] .
“How grateful I am for your unfailing gift of wise counsel – whether it’s about a philosophy or the placing of a comma, you’ve been on to it. And never daunting, always friendly”. Patrick Coldstream (2021)
“Your work on my book taught me so much”. Celia Purcell (2022)
“A masterclass in line-breaks and word order”. Owen Gallagher (2022)
Recordings of fourteen single-poet lectures and two poetry concerts available in the online series can all be booked via https://grahamfawcett.co.uk/events. Click on link here and then on the image.
All best wishes
Graham