Hi everyone. Thanks so much for coming along today and what a great meeting it was. Very interesting discussions about slugs plus the usual wide varitety of poems. Old ones, new ones, rhyming ones, free verse, even a pantoum! Excellent as ever.

I read The Bight by Elizabeth Bishop and A Tray of Eggs by Michael Laskey

Jane read Get Out of bed You Silly Fool. from the St.Cath's dementia project and Up In The Attic by Pam Ayers

Nancy read Mrs Aesop and Mrs Rip Van Winkle by Carol Ann Duffy

Ralph read Advice To Her Son On Marriage by Mary Barber and When I Was Fair and Young by Queen Elizabeth 1st

Harry read Remember by Christina Rossetti and Leaf by anon

Vicky read The Connoisseuse of Slugs by Sharon Olds and Oh I've Got To Get Fit by Philip l Ward

Chris read The Little Things In Life by Jolene Daniels and Awakings by Martina - Both poems were from a Facebook page called English Literature Society

Sue read The Diary of a Church Mouse by John Betjeman and the first part of Burning the Weeds by Laurence Binyon

Carol read Schoolboys in Winter by John Clare and Warning by Jenny Joseph

Catherine read Clydie is Dead by Anne Stevenson and My Cat by Grace Nichols

Nora read Tresco and an untitled poem by Mary Wilson

Sue read Cat Morgan Introduces Himself by TS Eliot

Irene read The Moon at Knowle Hill by Jackie Kay and some Haikus

In addition we discussed the Candlestick Press and Carol recommended a book on the history of poetry