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Poetry and......
This is a bit off the wall, but here goes anyway. I’m proposing to create a self-help, do-it-yourself poetry appreciation course in Stroud Green for 12 weeks in the New Year. This arises because my partner wants to learn a bit about poetry, which she never studied. I did lots of poetry at school and college and have a big poetry bookshelf. We can’t find a suitable evening class so I said, OK, I’d run it myself.
If we can have a book club then why not a poetry appreciation club? Anyone else interested? No money involved. I thought I would draw up a list of 12 English-language poets starting in the seventeenth century (John Donne) and ending with [edit] Nobel laureate Bob Dylan, pick a couple of poems from each, circulate them in advance for reading, and take it from there. I would personally enjoy a bit of a refresher course. Minimum three people, maximum six, twelve weeks only, dates tba. Meet in the White Lion or somewhere.
Just like my old school teacher’s seminars, really, except in the pub. (It could, of course, be arranged like some book clubs to meet at people’s houses and be combined with, er, wine appreciation.....)
I can certainly cover some of the basics, metaphor, simile, alliteration and iambic pentameters but there may well be far wiser heads and expertise on this board.
Any takers?
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Donne, Auden, Larkin, Elizabeth Bishop, William Empson, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling (I know, I know, but I think he's a weird mix of over and underrated) AE Stallings, Anne Carson (for the Orestaia translation), Shelley, Byron and Dylan if I must.
Mike