Our poetry evening started with Jill Fricker reading her poem, 'The Cordwainer's Son', which came second in the 2015 Four Counties Poetry Competition. Members then read out their own entries for our second HWG competition of the year - as well as
those submitted by members who were not able to attend. There were nineteen
poems in all, their subject matter ranging from family
relationships - passionate, tender or angry - through landscape and
seascape to the secret life of an X-ray particle. Some were light and
witty, some tender, some following tight structures, others more
loosely organised. In the second half, Eileen set us a writing exercise: we were
encouraged to use a verse form, but she kindly allowed those of us
who found this rather too challenging to relapse into prose. So,
required to imagine ourselves in Sainsbury’s, having just suffered or
welcomed some life-changing event, we broke down, shop-lifted and
wreaked havoc - sometimes in rhyming couplets.
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