Programme of Events
               Our default venue is the Friends Meeting House, 16 Queens Road,  however, because of building works, the May, June and July 2012 events will be at The Atrium, 105 Clarendon Park Road. (at the Christchurch building) .Readings beginning at 7.30pm.
  Annual (26 pounds/20 pounds  concessions) or temporary LPS membership ( 4 pounds /3 pounds concessions)
  is requested.

                                 Winter 2011
September 23rd     Annual General Meeting

October 14th   Pat Cusack on Edward Thomas a poet both of World War One trenches and Cotswold villages                                              

November 11th  Susan Wicks

        

December 9th Members Night  Marilyn Ricci, Elizabeth Hourston and the Recycled Harbours

                                           2012
20th January   New Year Social and Read Round
a bring your own night with edibles and potables (poems too)

10th February David Duncombe
     Derbyshire poet comes down from the hills                

9th March John Florance Desert Island Poetry
BBC Radio presenter presents his own choice of poems for a lone and sandy vigil


13th April John Greening    

11th May G.S.Fraser lecture delivered by Professor Martin Stannard

            

8th June   Ian Duhig

                                    

Brilliant as walls of Pre-Raphaelites, TV is wallpaper
beyond Morris, more human because it is moving,
which can inspire us all to poetry as it did Ashbery,
like the campfires our half-ape ancestors watched,
evolving so they'd be able to change the channel.

From A Room with A View

13th July Richard Gill on Victorian Poetry 

            
28th July Remembering Huw (with the Nottingham Poetry Society)

at the Mechanics Institute, Nottingham