A third successful Poetry Aloud workshop was held on Tuesday 22nd March. With only five people present there was plenty of time to discuss each of the poems presented in great depth. Getting into the heart of a poem and understanding the poets meaning, while giving the poet to chance to explain what they are trying to say, allows one to understand and appreciate each poem. The discussion that follows the reading of each poem allows the poet to see where they have failed to make their meaning clear and make amendments if they so wish.

I just love the comments that are added to the bottom of the poems, but it spoils it if they are credited to anonymous. The only reason I can see for not identifying oneself when adding a comment to a poem would be if it was particularly offensive. But no one would dream of being gratuitously offensive on this site would they? So please let us know who you are, when you leave a comment.

Anonymous (Just kidding)

Joe Thraveson-Lambert

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I've just discovered this Poet and her wonderful poem 'Over and Elm and I' there is a line in it which reads 'held a St. Neots Field' has anyone any idea what a 'St. Neots Field' is? From the context it appears to be some kind of charm or cure.

I went to the cinema on Tuesday (25^th June) Not unusual, you may think, although it was for me. What I went to see though was unusual; it was the first broadcast of a stage play from the National Theatre. It was broadcast in HD TV via satellite to selected cinemas around the world. The play was Phèdre by Jean Racine in a translation by Ted Hughes. This is not the first time that live performances have been broadcast to cinemas by HD TV, the Metropolitan Opera in New York have been broadcasting selected matinees for a couple of seasons now.