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We exist to promote and encourage all aspects of poetry, including workshops for local writers, publication of members’ poems and readings by both visiting and member poets, social occasions and other poetry events. We welcome all sections of the community, recognizing the benefits of ethnic, cultural, linguistic historical and social diversity. We are a self-governing body, managed by a Committee elected at the AGM.
Paddy Fraser is the Society’s Honary President. Her memoir of her late husband, G S Fraser, has been part-published in the online magazine, Jacket. See History and http://jacketmagazine.com/20/fraser.html. Among the small legion of the dedicated, past and present, which has sustained the Society through the decades have been Harold Frankel, G.S.Fraser, Emma Gleadall, Beryl Hamilton, Pat Corina, Jimmy Crighton, Anne Kind, Jo Goddard, Karin Koller, Catherine Byron, Peter Godfrey, Maimie Henderson, Mark Mawson, James Harbour, John Maloney, Brian Fewster, Sally Festing, Alex Milloy, Mike Brewer, Michael Hoyland, Norman Harrington, Graham Norman, Colin Wiltshire, Ben Sherriff, David Bircumshaw, Jean Harbour, Nancie Milloy, Alf Whitehead, Caroline Hawkridge, Lydia Finlay, Marilyn Ricci, Hilary Blackmore, Peter Plant, Ken Berry, Caroline Cook, Paul Brookes, Stuart Snowden, Andie Wingham, Gisela Hoyle, Paul Lee, B.J.Walklate, Emma Lee, Colin Cook, Huw Watkins, Margaret Da Costa, Jill Cunningham, Caroline Eastwood, Ivory Buchan, Mark Borg, Alice Beer, Dennis Jones and many, many others.
Caroline Cook is the current chair, the Treasurer is Colin Cook, also on the committee are Graham Norman and David Bircumshaw.
This website has been maintained successively by: Sally Festing - http://www.sallyfesting.info/. Funding A full annual audit of the financial records is carried out by two non-committee-members of the Society who are elected annually. The Society is entirely self-supporting. |
