Hagemann's Saturday Poetry now at "The Grove" Library

Saturday Poetry at The Grove Library, Peppermint GroveJoin Helen Hagemann's second Saturday Poetry class for Term 2 at The Grove, 28th August, 1.30pm-3.30pm. This class will look at the inclusion of “MOTIF” in poetry and ways of making your contemporary verse richer with wider references. Prior to writing exercises we will look at the work of Andrew Marvell, Nathan Curnow, Kate Llewellyn, Michael Ondaatje and Andrew Taylor. The Grove Library is situated...

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Poem for the Day - Claremont Showgrounds

Claremont Showgrounds When you enter this microcosm  country life meeting city  you're not thinking of Sideshow Alley. Your ear instructs you to the polo, wood-chopping, craft and produce show. You're not thinking of bunny hops, eagle drops on the Roller Coaster, your name called last for the Camel Ride, or the one-off number you couldn't collect for Big Bear or Panda. All winter your children saved for the whirligig of whoops and jolts,...

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Vale - Alec Choate 1915-2010

Vale by Helen Hagemann, 4th August, 2010I met this lovely man at his book launch of My Days Were Fauve, an Autobiography in Verse. I attended the launch with a friend, enjoyed Alec's reading, the wine and the company of many poets I knew. I bought Alec's book and was amazed at the creative, kinetic energy of his verse that was sustained throughout in imabic pentameter & rhyme. I later discovered that My Days Were Fauve was shortlisted for the...

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