Poetry
Currently, our meetings are held monthly every 1st Friday of each month at 10.15am in the Reading Room at the Lostwithiel Community Centre.
Group contact: Celia Jones
Telephone: 01208 871736
Update 23rd June 2025
Our next Poetry Group meeting is on Friday 4th July in the Community Centre. I am not sure which room we will be in. The theme is The Romantic Poets. That is Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Shelley and Blake.
Update 8th May 2025
Our next meeting will be on Friday 6th June. The topic will be ‘Poems that make you smile’.
Update 15th April 2025
Our last meeting, on 4th April, on accidental finds, was a huge success and we all enjoyed it. Our next meeting will be on Friday 2nd May. As usual it will be in the Reading Room at the Community Centre at 10.15 promptly. The topic will be poets or poems with a Cornish connection.
Update 10th March 2025
We had a super Poetry Group meeting on Friday, sharing poems roughly linked to the supernatural or ghosts. Our next meeting is on Friday 4th April. The topic is ‘accidental finds’. That is, poems we have come across while looking for our previous topics.
Update 7th February 2025
Our next meeting is on 7th March at 10.15am and our chosen theme is "The Supernatural"
Update 30th January 2025
The theme for our 7th February meeting is poems about Love - this can be any love, romantic, nature, country etc.
Update 23rd September 2024
These are the themes for our next two meetings. On 4th October, we will read poems from Scottish Poets. On 1st November, we have invited local poet Derek Hines to read some of his poems.
Update 7th February 2024
These are the next two topics for our meetings. As it will be St. David's Day on the 1st March, the topic will be will be Wesh Poets.
On the 5th April, the subject will be Childhood.
Update 4th December 2023
Our next meeting is on 5th January 2024 and, as it falls on the eve of Epiphany, we will be reading The Coming of the Kings, a play by Ted Hughes.
Update 1st October 2023
Our next meeting is on 6th October and the subject is Meetings and Partings
Update 14th July 2023
We have decided to have a break in August. Our next meeting will be on 1st September and the subject is Humorous Poetry
Update 6th April 2023
Our next Poetry Group meeting is on Friday 14th April at 10.30am at the Community Centre. The subject is New Beginnings.
Update 25th November 2022
Our next meeting will be on Friday 2nd December at 10.30am in the Community Centre. Our guest speaker will be local poet Derek Hines who will talk about his book "The Fawi".
Update 8th November 2022
The theme for November is "Remembrance and War Poets (But not necessarily war poems)
Update 1st March 2022
We have now found a suitable venue for the Poetry Group. We will be meeting on the second Friday of each month in the Long Room at Lostwithiel Community Centre. The next meeting will be on Friday 11th March and the subject will be Spring.
Update 22nd November 2021
The next meeting of the poetry group is on Friday 10th December at 10.30 am. at The Royal Oak. The subject is American Woman Poets.
Update 14th January 2020
At our meeting on Valentines Day (Friday 14 February) we will look at love poems.
Update 17th December 2019
Owing to logistic difficulties, the meeting scheduled for Friday 13th December was held informally in a local coffee shop and not the Platform Meeting Room.
Hence at our next meeting on Friday 10th January 2020 we will discuss Humorous Poetry.
This re-run of the meeting allows the opportunity to repost this wonderful video from Simon Armitage.
Update 10th November 2019
The topic for our meeting on Friday 13th Dec will be Humorous Poetry,
Update 1st October 2019
The topic for our meeting on Friday 11th October will be "The Sea"
Update 26th August 2019
At our meeting on Friday 13th September we will be discussing the new Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage
Update 10th July 2019
