Please don't keep me guessing about L'Bro's star attraction!
Yes, the Quaker Meetinghouse location you'd posted on a recent petc got my
attention. I'm a fallen-away Chicago Monthly Meeting Friend, my pre-teen,
then, son having asked if we could join up---and now he/his wife and their 6
yr old boytwins attend a California Meeting. I believe we can credit the
brainy-efficient, wealthy Margaret Fell Fox, as much as her husband George,
with the success [tho limited relative to other Protestant groups,
certainly] of the Society of Friends. Any cushions on those pews, David?
<g> You might take a tip from them in their insisting upon consensus at
business meetings.....hee hee.....about as successful, I take it, as your
Leicester Poetry group. Brief meditation, tho, is a wonderful thing, esp
done in like-minded groups. I learned it from Friends, and am ever so
grateful.
Re Alison Flett, soon I'll be reading her book you've recommended. Have
been, as well, trying to acquaint m'sel' with current Scottish female poets.
Have had several rodent suggestions which're fruitful, am finding many
other names, but few poems online, unfortunately. Recommends?
Best,
Judy orf for errands, it's now 33C at 10 am!
2009/6/13 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> Yes, we'll have to sort something out: the committee's having some internal
> matters to wrangle, really we all want to murder each other but let's keep
> it polite, but by next month we should be able to talk about dates, we have
> a fixed and all-year-round venue at the Quaker Meeting House now, as well
> as
> openings at the Universities.Ironically, there's a festival at Loughborough
> next month which I long ago agreed to read at. They now have a star
> attraction, guess who?
>
> best
>
> dave
>
> 2009/6/13 Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Reminds, me David, now having trashed your UK Laureate.....<g> ... I'm
> > ready
> > yes ready to read me poems in Leicester. I'll wager that a female
> > USAmerican could sequester some Leicesters, even sell a pamphlet or two.
> > And soom others may well wish to complement-read, if you know what/whom
> I
> > mean....
> > subtle and humble as always, Judy
> >
> > 2009/6/13 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > H'm, Carol Ann Duffy's first poem as Laureate
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/12/politics-carol-ann-duffy-poem
> > > <
> >
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/12/politics-carol-ann-duffy-poem
> > > >and,
> > > I write in all sincerity, congratulations to the outgoing tenant on his
> > > knighthood, the verray parfait Sir Andrew, as well as to the previous
> > > Professor of Poetry at Oxford, good Sir Christopher Ricks.
> > >
> > > A Toast, please.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Bircumshaw
> > > "Nothing can be done in the face
> > > of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Nothing can be done in the face
> of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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