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
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