Saturday March 24th, Hills Room, Gainsborough House, Sudbury

Note the change of venue from the advertised programme

Surprising Ourselves: A poetry workshop for children aged 8 and above, with conversation and guesswork arising from riddles and a few poems in a form that can be imitated, with the opportunity for each to read their work to the whole group. Parents are welcome.

Sunday March 11th 14:00-17:00, Red Cross Hall, Woodbridge

All members warmly welcomed

with guest speaker Kate Foley.

Amsterdam/Suffolk based poet and SPS member Kate Foley has kindly agreed to read to us. She is currently completing her fifth collection, due in 2012. She gives readings and workshops across Europe.

Poetry at the Castle

Two-Session Workshop with Mosaic Stanza

Dates: Saturday 28 January and Saturday 3rd March

Time: 10.00 am-1.00 pm

Place: Colchester Castle

Cost: £15 for both sessions and £10 for Friends of the Museums.

A Homage to Wilfred Owen

This year a small group consisting of members and their partners from Suffolk Poetry Society and poetryWivenhoe were invited to attend the inauguration of La Maison Forestiere which has been developed as a memorial to Wilfred Owen and a celebration of poetry.

Closing date: Friday 1st June 2012
Winners notified: 1st July 2012

This year’s Wirral Festival of Firsts Open Poetry competition is now open for entries.

Dear All,
I have received several complaints regarding errors in the copy of our recent edition of 12 rivers. I can only apologise to all concerned and issue the following corrections.

In our May edition I erroneously attributed “A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”,  to Blake whereas it is of course from John Keats’  ‘Endymion’. A moment of name blindness I am afraid. A reminder that one should not call the name of one poet whilst dreaming of another.

When T S Eliot was a boy, he would go with his family to the Massachusetts coast at Cape Ann, where his father had built a house for their summer holidays. The times he spent by the sea there inspired in Eliot a desire to write a book of essays about his memories of the place, memories which would later be embodied in a poem which takes as its title a ledge of rocks known as The Dry Salvages, a local landmark which could, and still can, be seen when the mist rises, a few hundred yards out to sea.

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