CELEBRATING WORLD POETRY DAY ON 21 MARCH 2023
with a “Poetry, Ploughman’s and Plonk” evening
This annual celebration of World Poetry Day began in 2021, on Zoom, during the Covid 19 lockdowns. But this year, for the first time, members and friends gathered at the President’s home for ‘live’ poetry readings.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable evening with a ploughman’s supper and, of course, plenty of ‘plonk’.
The event raised £100 for the Croydon Health Charity, which the Club is currently supporting.
Thanks go to Sue Wragg for kindly arranging the programme of readings, details of which are below.
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Places |
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01. |
Graham Harker |
Seaside Golf |
John Betjeman |
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02. |
Barbara Harker |
Prologue spoken by Peggy Ashcroft at the opening of the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, 1962 |
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Love |
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03. |
Patricia Painting |
A Subaltern’s Love Song |
John Betjeman |
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04. |
Richard Wragg |
To His Coy Mistress |
Andrew Marvell |
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Friendship |
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05. |
Mary Bishop |
Bonds of Friendship |
Craig Burkholder |
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06. |
Patricia Painting |
Break, Break, Break |
Alfred Lord Tennyson |
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07. |
Joe Trickey |
Stop all The Clocks |
W H Auden |
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Finance |
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08. |
Ian Wesson |
Lines Written on a Banknote |
Robbie Burns |
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A taste of Spanish |
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09. |
Pilar Wesson |
Tengo ei caballo en la purerta |
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B R E A K |
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Some light relief |
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01. |
Graham Harker |
A selection from Roald Dahl, Ogden Nash and Spike Milligan |
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02. |
Barbara Harker |
I am going to be surgically enhanced |
Pam Ayres |
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Nature/Animals |
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03. |
Mary Bishop |
The Ballad of Rum |
Peter Wolveridge |
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04. |
Sue Wragg |
The Snake |
D H Lawrence |
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05. |
Ian Wesson |
The Tyger |
William Blake |
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Light philosophical |
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06. |
Joe Trickey |
Days |
Philip Larkin |
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07. |
Sue Wragg |
Doggerel for a Senior Citizen |
W H Auden |
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08. |
Richard Wragg |
The Sunset poem from Under Milkwood |
Dylan Thomas |
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Death |
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09. |
Joe Trickey |
Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight |
Dylan Thomas |
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10. |
Joe Trickey |
The Hearse Song |
Anonymous |
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focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the President’s chosen charity.