8.00pm WI Hall - Cookham Dean

2009-04-28T05:08:00.000-07:00

“APRIL SHOWERS”.

“Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote

the droghte of March hath perced to the roote”

and if you don’t know what our great 14^th century poet, Thomas Chaucer, was on about, you’ll just have to come to Cookham Dean on Tuesday 28^th April [7.30pm at the W.I. Hall, just down from the church] to find out!

We plan a celebration of Spring in Poetry – YOUR poetry, other people’s poetry, which you are invited to read [or have read for you]. On the subject of SPRING!

Appropriately [?] the evening will be directed by local poet Mike SPRINGate. Three tranches of poetry [10 poems/ 45 minutes], each one introduced by a local Cookham poet reading one of their own works: then it’s YOUR reading, selected by ballot. Very informal, lots of fun [as those who enjoyed last February’s ’Ladies Love’ will recall].

PROGRAMME.

7.30. Starters! Introduction by Mike Springate.

7.45. 10 poems introduced by Gail Dorrington.

8.30. Supper – main course.

9 pm. 10 poems

9.45. Dessert.

10pm. Final group of poems.

10.30.Raffle.

*Timings are approximate!

*After the initial poem in each section, selection of poems & their readers will be by ballot.

*the raffle is to raise funds for SJB Vestry fund – particularly for the “Sunbeams” and the “Friendship” lunches.

Food included! Nuts, crisps and dips to start, main course after the first set of poems, desert after the second. Home-cooked! BRING YOUR OWN WINE!

The evening will end at about 10.30 pm with a raffle to kick off St. JB’s vestry fund – the church needs more space for the ‘Sunbeams’ on Sunday and its popular lunches for the elderly, so dig deep!

ALL FOR £12 a ticket, from The Stationery Depot, Cookham Rise……………..: first-come, first-served!

April Showers Poetry Evening

8.00pm WI Hall - Cookham Dean