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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Stef F View Post
    Hope is the thing with feathers

    Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all

    And sweetest in the Gale is heard
    And sore must be the storm
    That could abash the little Bird
    That kept so many warm

    I've heard it in the chillest land
    And on the strangest Sea
    Yet, never, in Extremity,
    It asked a crumb of Me.

    Emily Dickinson
    Nice choice Stef

    Keeping with the ornithology (and hope) theme

    The Darkling Thrush

    I leant upon a coppice gate
    When Frost was spectre-gray,
    And Winter's dregs made desolate
    The weakening eye of day.
    The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
    Like strings of broken lyres,
    And all mankind that haunted nigh
    Had sought their household fires.

    The land's sharp features seemed to be
    The Century's corpse outleant,
    His crypt the cloudy canopy,
    The wind his death-lament.
    The ancient pulse of germ and birth
    Was shrunken hard and dry,
    And every spirit upon earth
    Seemed fevourless as I.

    At once a voice arose among
    The bleak twigs overhead
    In a full-hearted evensong
    Of joy illimited;
    An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
    In blast-beruffled plume,
    Had chosen thus to fling his soul
    Upon the growing gloom.

    So little cause for carolings
    Of such ecstatic sound
    Was written on terrestrial things
    Afar or nigh around,
    That I could think there trembled through
    His happy good-night air
    Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
    And I was unaware.

    Thomas Hardy

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    That's lovely, thank you Alf

    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    Nice choice Stef

    Keeping with the ornithology (and hope) theme

    The Darkling Thrush

    I leant upon a coppice gate
    When Frost was spectre-gray,
    And Winter's dregs made desolate
    The weakening eye of day.
    The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
    Like strings of broken lyres,
    And all mankind that haunted nigh
    Had sought their household fires.

    The land's sharp features seemed to be
    The Century's corpse outleant,
    His crypt the cloudy canopy,
    The wind his death-lament.
    The ancient pulse of germ and birth
    Was shrunken hard and dry,
    And every spirit upon earth
    Seemed fevourless as I.

    At once a voice arose among
    The bleak twigs overhead
    In a full-hearted evensong
    Of joy illimited;
    An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
    In blast-beruffled plume,
    Had chosen thus to fling his soul
    Upon the growing gloom.

    So little cause for carolings
    Of such ecstatic sound
    Was written on terrestrial things
    Afar or nigh around,
    That I could think there trembled through
    His happy good-night air
    Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
    And I was unaware.

    Thomas Hardy

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    thanks for posting Emily Dickinson Stef F. I did n't know till I read in the paper yesterday that Emily Dickinson was virtually unknown in her own lifetime and her collection of 1800 poems were discovered by her sister, who thought they warranted recognition and duly got them published and the rest as they say is history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N-dubya View Post
    thanks for posting Emily Dickinson Stef F. I did n't know till I read in the paper yesterday that Emily Dickinson was virtually unknown in her own lifetime and her collection of 1800 poems were discovered by her sister, who thought they warranted recognition and duly got them published and the rest as they say is history.
    1800! That is nearly as many as Herakles.

    Lapwing stood as stones
    Basking as morning sun melts
    Frost into grey fell

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    1800! That is nearly as many as Herakles.

    Lapwing stood as stones
    Basking as morning sun melts
    Frost into grey fell
    I think that should be a task for Herakles to count how many contributions he has made I bet it would be staggering

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    carpet of snowdrops
    beneath busy rookery
    heralds season's turn

    Poacher turned game-keeper

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    The Fell Poets Society present

    Simon Armitage

    at Dufton Village Hall

    15th of July 2010

    8pm

    The Poet and Writer Simon Armitage will be reading a selection of poetry as he walks the Pennine Way from north to south.

    Entry is free but Simon will be passing his hat round at the end of the evening to see if he can fund his walk by performing each night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    The Fell Poets Society present

    Simon Armitage

    at Dufton Village Hall

    15th of July 2010

    8pm

    The Poet and Writer Simon Armitage will be reading a selection of poetry as he walks the Pennine Way from north to south.

    Entry is free but Simon will be passing his hat round at the end of the evening to see if he can fund his walk by performing each night.
    woohoo!

    I have had an e mail of Simons people (could be a name of an eighties pop group) explaining some stuff, and an e mail off Al what's happeneing what do we need to organise.

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    with regards to a bookshop setting up and providing some books for sale yadda yadda yadda, First place that comes to mind is Sedbergh which markets itself as abook town I bet one of the private book shops there would be more than willing I could e mail some of these if you want, but I don't want stand on any toes if this is already arranged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by N-dubya View Post
    with regards to a bookshop setting up and providing some books for sale yadda yadda yadda, First place that comes to mind is Sedbergh which markets itself as abook town I bet one of the private book shops there would be more than willing I could e mail some of these if you want, but I don't want stand on any toes if this is already arranged.
    Good plan. Feel free to make some enquiries. I'm happy to sort out the bits and pieces of publicity I mentioned if you do that.

    Does anyone have access to a PA system of some sort, I've got a megaphone but that might not quite be right!


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