Dear Poetry Friends
LATE SUMMER & EARLY AUTUMN 2026 NEWSLETTER
COMING UP
Rilke 100 at The Lamb September 7, London
The Lusiads September 14 and weekly, online
Home and Abroad, A Poetry Life September 17, Taunton
If you’re writing . . . summer and autumn, online
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Winslow Homer, The Veteran in a New Field, 1865
LIVE
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7 2026, 1130 TO 230 WITH A BREAK FOR LUNCH
Rilke 100 at The Lamb – Poetry Anniversary Lunch 1
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ
Rainer Maria Rilke, Hotel Bîron, Paris c. 1908. He died a hundred years ago this year.
Return of the popular Poetry Anniversary Lunches at The Lamb series which ran there for nineteen months in 2012 and 2013. The idea is:
- a poet was born or died or published a major work 50, 100 or another tidy number of years ago,
- we have the (newly decorated) Upstairs Bar of The Lamb to ourselves undisturbed for an hour in the morning to read and talk about the poet,
- then we have lunch, pre-ordered by you and served at our table in the same Bar
- and after that we carry on reading and talking there where we left off !
Details and booking: https://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/event/poetryanniversarylunches1-rilke/
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ONLINE
STARTS MONDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 2026, 1230 TO 200 PM
(and carries on for a further nine Mondays, 330 TO 500PM)
The Lusiads (new series)
Igor De Loyola, The Lusiads, Canto IV
Epic Portuguese Renaissance poem by Luís de Camões, Portugal’s explorer/poet hero compared, and not only by the Portuguese, to Homer, Vergil, Shakespeare and Milton, claims supported by the sheer virtuosity of the verse and the imaginative power of the narrative.
Would you be interested in joining this group to read and discuss the poem? There is currently one vacancy and there may be two. Write to me at [email protected] if you would like the details, as this course is by invitation and does not appear on my website.
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If you’re writing . . .
and would welcome my help in reading through and commenting on poems you hope to make into a new collection, write to me at [email protected].
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LIVE
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17 2026, 630 T0 830PM
Home and Abroad, A Poetry Life
Graham Fawcett in conversation with Lionel Ward of Brendon Books
I have been talking to Brendon Books audiences since the resolute Lionel Ward – who created this delightful independent bookshop and puts on whole series of literary events there – asked me to go and talk about Pablo Neruda there in 2013.
So it seemed like the obvious place to do a first ‘in conversation’ evening, especially as Lionel’s audiences’ Q and A sessions are always lively and could last longer ! Visitors from beyond Taunton are always made very welcome there. More at: https://www.ticketsource.com/brendonbooks/festival-event-home-and-abroad-a-poetry-life-graham-fawcett-in-conversation/e-vgemaz/
Best wishes
Graham