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Poetry at SMSA 2024

Poetry at SMSA 2024

Date & Time

This group meets on the second Tuesday of each month, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Please scroll down for a list of meeting dates and information about monthly topics.


For current meeting details and/or to join the group, please contact Group Coordinator Peter Rainey (details below). 

Come along to our free discussion group for poetry lovers held on the second Tuesday of each month. Timings are from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm. Recite, listen to and discuss poems in an informal, friendly atmosphere. Half of each meeting is dedicated to a theme.

Offers to chair meetings are always welcome. So too are offers to lead discussion on a nominated poem. The only rule is that one can’t read one’s own poems.

Members’ Group – New Members Welcome

Group Coordinator: Peter Rainey

DateMeeting TypeTopicTopic Leader
16 January*Norman Selfe RoomColeridge’s “Christabel” : A Reading & AnalysisPeter R
13 FebruaryNorman Selfe RoomPoems in TranslationKate
12 MarchNorman Selfe RoomConfinement and LibertyAndy
9 AprilNorman Selfe RoomThe Poetry of James JoyceHarry
14 MayNorman Selfe RoomIndigenous Australian PoetryLaurel W
11 JuneNorman Selfe RoomJohn Donne and George Herbert (2 Metaphysical Poets)Peter R
9 JulyNorman Selfe RoomWeatherDrew
13 AugustNorman Selfe RoomFour Quartets (“East Coker” & “Little Gidding”)Peter K
10 SeptemberNorman Selfe RoomGoetheHarry
8 / 15 OctoberNorman Selfe RoomNo Topic **Peter R
12 NovemberNorman Selfe RoomHopeMarcelle
10 DecemberNorman Selfe RoomEE Cummings & Ogden NashPeter K

* Note: the third Tuesday (not the second)

**For “No Topic”, perhaps you might like to consider poems that might suit the topics that just missed out: “American (and English) Beat Poets”, “Exile” and “ Two Victorian Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Bronte”.

Date & Time

This group meets on the second Tuesday of each month, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Please scroll down for a list of meeting dates and information about monthly topics.

Location

Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, Pitt Street, Sydney NSW, Australia

Norman Selfe Room

280 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000

Level 3

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