Friday, July 29, 2011

'The Gods' - Dead Poets Dinner 2011 ... Details of Readings


'The Gods' ANU Canberra (Geoff Page):  Dead Poets Dinner 26 July 2011
(details of some of the readings)

Reader ..... Poet ..... Poem(s)

Peter Edgar ... Shakespeare sonnet and ‘Skylark’ by Johnny Mercer
P.S. Cottier ... Borges Two sonnets
Joyce Freedman ... Robert Browning ... ‘The Lost Leader’
Janice Tynan ...  Emily Dickinson two poems
John van de Graaff ... Christina Rosettie ‘The First Day’
Hazel Hall ... Two Chinese poems (classical)
Christopher Dorman ... poem by Will Ogilvie
Geoff Page ... Philip Larkin ... ‘Aubade’
Melinda Smith ... Laura Riding ... ‘The Troubles of a Book’
Sarah Rice ...  Robert Frost ... ‘Mending Wall’
Caren Florance ... Lauris Edmond ... ‘Take One’
Lisa ... Edith Sitwell poem from ‘Facade’
Nicholas Brown ...  John Forbes two poems
Penelope Upward ...  ‘La Bonne Chanson’ Verlaine (in English)
Richard Scutter ... Arthur Stace ... Eternity ... E. E. Cummings ... If everything happens that can't be done
Sue Edgar ... Kipling ... ‘The Ladies’ and C.J. Dennis ... ‘Beef Tea’
Martin Dolan ... R.S. Thomas ‘A Marriage’ + poem by Edwin Morgan
Kathy Kituai ... Frank McMahon and Norman McCaig poems
Luke Whitington ... Wallace Stevens ...  ‘The House was Quiet and the World was Calm’
Alison Hastie ... Dorothy Baruch ... ‘Different Bicycles’ and Arthur Waley (trans)’On the Birth of his Son’
Donna Stewart ... Two Classical Chinese poems (in English)
Peter Latona ... Anne Edgeworth ... ‘Birth of a Poet’

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