The University of the Third Age - Welwyn Hatfield
Poetry Study Group
Meetings are held on alternate Thursday mornings, from 10:30am to 12:30pm, at 13 South Ley, Welwyn Garden City AL7 4JP
Group Leader: Hazel Bell, 01707 265201; hkb@aidanbell.com
Each meeting of the group is themed: for example, the poems read at the session could be about ageing, nations, seasons or the work of a particular poet or poets. We each select and read our chosen poems at the meetings, for group discussion.
Meetings for the rest of 2017 will be:
- 16 March: Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and Alun Lewis
- 30 March
- April 20
- May 4
- May 18
- June 1
- June15
- June 29
- July 13
- July 27
- Augst 10
- August 24
- Sept. 7
- Sept. 21
- October 5
- Oct. 19
- November 2
- Nov. 16
- Nov. 30
- December 14
Past subjects
2011
- Milton, Donne
- Bible, favourites
- Emily Dickinson
- Elizabeth Jennings
- G Mackay Brown
- Pat McMahon
- Norman Mackay
- Louis McNeice
- Love and betrayal
- Trees/fruit
- Yeats
- Autumn
- love
- war (abroad)
- age
- animals
- winter, Christmas
2012
- Seamus Heaney & Ted Hughes
- ships, boats
- love
- travel
- Laurie Lee, Christina Rossetti
- Rudyard Kipling, Maya Angelou
- G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc
- Robert Frost, Wilfred Owen
- mountains, lakes
- Irish poets
- dwellings, buildings
- poems with names of real people
- women
- Dylan Thomas, Edward Thomas
- John Clare, children
- music, singing
- animals
- Under Milk Wood
- people
- Longfellow & Philip Larkin
- Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke
- Thomas Hardy, favourites
- Christmas, travel
2013
- winter, seasons
- mythology, heroes
- all creatures great and small
- Spring
- foreign poems
- dwellings
- humorous / funereal
- professions
- Tennyson, T S Eliot
- Algernon Swinburne, W. H. Auden
- Robert Browning, Rudyard Kipling
- William Shakespeare
- Matthew Arnold
- Robert Graves
- Ezra Pound
- John Betjeman
- Louis McNiece
- Alice Meynell, Francis Thompson
- Seamus Heaney
- Kahlil Gibran, William Blake
- Walter de la Mere. R. S. Thomas
- S. T. Coleridge - Christabel
- War
- Female poets
- Christmas
2014
- Tennyson - The Coming of Arthur
- Gerard Manley Hopkins & Norman McCaig
- Favourite poems
- Milton - Paradise Lost (Book 1)
- Yeats
- The Mersey Group
- A.E. Housman, Walter de la Mare
- Derek Walcott
- Swinburne, Andrew Motion
- John Donne (CD of his love poems)
- Metaphysical poets
- Journeys
- Nostalgia / Fruit
- Celebration
- Nations
- Landscapes
- Cities
- War and Peace
- The 4 elements
- Freedom and persecution
2015
- T. S. Eliot
- Modernism
- sonnets
- Spring and Easter
- water
- human habitation
- Pope and the Augustans
- the pursuit of love
- characters and craftsmen
- Kings, Queens heroes and magic
- places
- North America (US & Canada)
- colour and treasure
- Autumn
- Scottish poets
2016
- Transport
- Friendship
- Norman McCaig / animal kingdom
- poems with names in
- relatives (extended family)
- Royalty
- heat and cold
- youth and age
- mountains and seas
- delight and despair
- journeys
- poems written in the first person
- cities, towns and villages
- sleep and dreams
- colourful characters
- ends and beginnings
- rivers and brooks
- sailors and sailing
- food and drink, taste and smell
- gardens
- winter
- time
2017
- Getting from here to there
- Childhood and childish things
- The letter 'M': subject matter - e.g. Moors, Magic or Mystery; or in the title - e.g. Maud, Memoriam; or some significant word within the poem.
- The end of Winter and the beginning of Spring
- Sun, moon, stars and the heavens
- Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and Alun Lewis
- Birth and renewal
- People
- Ireland, Scotland and Wales
- Walter de la Mare
- Summer
- Poets or poems beginning with the letter R
- Artifacts
- Communication: language, writing, poetry, books
Click here to see a Youtube video of a poetry group meeting.
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