Border Poets
Poetry in the Marches
About us...
Contact us
If you wish to contact us, our secretary Paul Francis, is at francisliberty@btinternet.com
Border Poets is a group of writers, who live in the area near the Welsh border. At present, we have members who live, for example, in Tenbury, Leominster, Ludlow and Bishop’s Castle. We meet roughly six times a year, from 10.30 – 4.30, usually on a Sunday. Sometimes we gather at The Hurst Arvon centre, near Clun, but we often travel to visit different parts of the region.
In 2012 we had a good and varied year, which went like this:
January Planning the programme
Watching Buster Keaton’s film Young Sherlock
March Watching the Korean Film Poetry
April A reading at Wenlock Poetry Festival, promtoing our collection Sheep,
Smoke, Stone, and also featuring Miriam Obrey’s sequence Voices from under
the Eaves of Kilpeck church.
May a reading at Discoed church
a visit to Brampton Bryan
July a walk around Much Wenlock quarries, with local experts
September a visit to the Regal cinema at Tenbury Wells
November a session at the Hurst with the Life, Land and Livelihood project.
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...our membership
We are a group of experienced poets, who welcome close discussion of what we have written, and we greatly value sharing responses to our poems. New members often join by invitation, but we also welcome applications from people we don’t know, although we do ask that they submit a sample of half a dozen poems for our consideration. If you wish to do this, or have other queries about membership, please contact our secretary Paul Francis, at francisliberty@btinternet.com
...and a typical meeting
There’s probably no such thing. Sometimes we have guest speakers, and often we have a two-hour readaround of poems we’ve writen since the last meeting (which we’ve shared round in advance, by e-mail). This is the rough timetable of a day we spent at The Hurst in March 2011, with some photographs of us in action.
10.30 – 12.00 coffee, business, and a symposium on Our Experience of Cinema.
12.00 – 1.00 a workshop on Writing Cinema Poems
1.00 – 2.00 a shared picnic lunch, in the kitchen.
2.00 – 3.30 exploring the grounds, and working on our poems
3.30 – 4.00 a brief readaround of what we’ve written
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