I know its been a while since Poet in the City last posted one of these, but since I’m back and it’s a new year let’s start as we mean to go on.
Anyway, those of you who survived the drop-in on Tuesday 5th at Waterstone’s Piccadilly would’ve undoubtedly been infected by poetryitis, an age old disease which causes its victims to speak in verse and to think in metaphor. Authorities state that there was a hundred percent infection rate upon attendees.
As you may have guessed the theme was on health; a preview to our Poetry and Medicine event being held on Monday 4th March at Kings Place, York Way. As usual, now follows a list of poems and poets read. If I have made any omissions or mistakes please feel free to scold me in the comments box below. Our next drop-in is on The Old Ways at our regular venue in Waterstones Piccadilly. Thank you for the verse.
First Half
David Morley – The Gift
Lord Byron – She Walks in Beauty
Mary Oliver – University Hospital Boston
Wilfred Owen – Disabled
Ted Hughes – War
Mario Petrucci (Host) – One Flesh
Kate B. Hal (pia) – Dorothy’s Doctor
Murial Rukeyser – Yes
T.S. Elliot – East Coker (excerpt)
Racker Donnelly (pia) – The Good Old Haze
David Neutra (pia) - Tbiz Prayer
Eddie Ford (pia) – Waiting at the Doctors
Mark Price (pia) – The Stamp of One Effect
Lizzie Hausley (pia) – Speech Theraphy
Thom Gunn – Still Life
Louise Warren (pia) – Cell Death
John Updike – Colonoscopy
Second Part
Galway Kinnell – St Francis And The Sow
Mario Petrucci (host) – India
Roy Fisher – As He Came Near Death
Walt Whitman – The Wound Dresser
Mario Petrucci (host)- The Word to Which
John Gibbens (pia) – In Praise of Sleep
In Praise of Pluto
Jennifer Johnson (pia) – Between TheWords
Adrian Braugh (pia) – Are You All Right
Les Murray – Hearing Impairement
Richard Lee (pia) – Carcinoma
Eve Jackson (pia) – Women In Winter
Steve Rushton (pia) – I Wake Up This Morning
Samuel Becket – Letter 1957
Mark Price (pia) – Sleeping Sickness
Kate B. Hall (pia) – Mind Ornithologist
Phillip Larkin – The Building
Racker Donnelly (pia) – The Plague
John Donne- Death Be Not Proud
Richard Lee – Notes From A Cockroach Hospital
Polly Clark – Chaingo Massage
*pia – poets in attendance
Jamie, that’s so good to see your posting – so much to learn, at this late stage, about how these
systems work, thankyou, Sheila B.
It was my first time, I enjoyed it a lot – loved hearing other people reading so beautifully – and very grateful for this listing.
Lizzie (ps – Horsley not Hawsley)