Another lively meeting with a lot of discussion about our poems and the issue and feelings they raised. Not without some contoversy but, as usual, all points of view were met with respect and openness. On member desribes our meetings as ' a good opportunity to try out your own thoughts on others in an open, non-hostile setting' which is certgainly what Du3a is all about.

I read A Constable Calls by Seamus Heaney. It's from his 1975 collection North. I also read Red Boots On by Kit Wright from Hoping It Might Be So, poems 1974-2000

Nancy read Alternative Endings and Our Saints Day both by Andrew Waterhouse from his collection 2nd

Felicity read Cambodian Dreams from a site called Poetry from the Kingdom of Wonder [I was unable to find this site so have included a link to a range of poems about Cambodia]. She also read a section from Paradise Lost by John Milton.

Carol read Town Owl by Laurie Lee and Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Catherine read Raising Lads by the Bradford performance poet Kirsty Taylor and a section from Yonderland by Simon Armitage

Harry read Tomorrow Has Your Name On It by Roger McGough and I Wish I Could Remember That First Day by Christina Rossetti

Irene read St. Senara and Me by Ann Kiby ( a Cornish poem ) [I was unable to find the poem or the poet but this was from She Will Soar, an anthology edited by Ana Sampson]. and Romance by RL Stevenson

Chris read QARNAC (the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps) by Anon [Unable to find this poem so I have linked to another poem on the same theme] and We All Have A Story by Michelle Harverson

Ralph read The Things That Cause A Quiet Life by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Ralph reminded us that it was this Earl who introduced the sonnet to English letters.

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517 – 19 January 1547), KG, was an English nobleman, politician and poet. He was one of the founders of English Renaissance poetry and was the last known person executed at the instance of King Henry VIII. He was a first cousin of both Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard, second and fifth wives of King Henry VIII. His name is usually associated in literature with that of the poet Sir Thomas Wyatt. 

He and his friend Sir Thomas Wyatt were the first English poets to write in the sonnet form that Shakespeare later used, and Howard was the first English poet to publish blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) in his translation of the second and fourth books of Virgil's Aeneid. Together, Wyatt and Howard, due to their excellent translations of Petrarch's sonnets, are known as "Fathers of the English Sonnet".

( Wikipedia)