The School of Night

Tuesday 19th March, 5.30pm, Alumni Room. Theme: poems about Sheela-na-gigs

School of Night

Tuesday 29 Jan 2019, Alumni Room, 5.30pm

Theme: trees.

School of Night

Tuesday 11th December, 5.30, Alumni Room. Theme: poems about paintings.

School of Night

Monday 26th November, 5.30 pm, Alumni Room, School of English.

Theme: the moon.
Poems:

Sonnet 31 from Astrophil and Stella - Philip Sidney

Sad Steps - Philip Larkin

Moon - Kathleen Jamie

Full Moon and Little Frieda - Ted Hughes

The Moon was but a Chin of Gold - Emily Dickinson

Moon-Landings - Robert Lowell

Full Moon - Alice Oswald

School of Night   Next meeting: Wednesday 24th October, 5.30pm, Alumni Room.  Theme: parents.  This week's family:   This Be The Verse - Philip Larkin Morning Song - Sylvia Plath My Parents' Wedding Night, 1937 - Sharon Olds The Gift - Li-Young Lee The Butts - Seamus Heaney Oyster - Rachel Bower Foaling - Rachel...

First  School of Night meeting of the 2018/19 academic year. All welcome. Theme: Creatures of the Sea.  Among the catches to be landed and observed: The Fishing Party - Michael Longley Clownfish - Lavinia Greenlaw Black Caiman with Butterflies - Pascale Petite from The Odyssey - Book XII, Scylla and Charybdis, trans Emily Wilson, Robert...

The final School of Night meeting of this year's academic year.  Theme: Food and Drink.