Dear Poetry Friends
COMING UP
Rilke 100 at The Lamb September 7, London is now fully booked (see October 6 below)
The Lusiads September 14 and weekly, online
Home and Abroad, A Poetry Life September 17, Taunton
Jennings 100 at The Lamb October 6, London
If you’re writing . . .
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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? A new vacancy has just occurred. 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/
LIVE
TUESDAY OCTOBER 6, 2026, 1130 TO 230 WITH A BREAK FOR LUNCH
Jennings 100 – Poetry Anniversary Lunch 2
Elizabeth Jennings, born 18 July 1926. Portrait by Fay Godwin in 1986.
The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, WC1N 3LZ
The format 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,
- we have lunch, pre-ordered by you and served to us in the same Bar,
- and after that we carry on reading and talking there where we left off.
More on Jennings 100 at: https://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/event/poetryanniversarylunches2-jennings100-2/
Best wishes
Graham