If you’re keen to find a way in to reading and appreciating poetry, discover new writing, and open your mind to the world of poetry, welcome to The Reading Circle.
Come to OPL’s poetry reading group where we’ll share and discuss poems written in the 20th and 21st centuries in a relaxed and inclusive peer-led environment.
Questions we’ll be asking include:
What makes a poem ‘work’?
Why do we like a poem? Why don’t we?
Is there such a thing as a fashionable poem? Does it matter?
Can we love a poem we don’t fully understand? What makes mystery different to obscurity?
What might we learn from other poets that can help us enrich our own craft?
The Reading Circle meets on the third Saturday of each month in The Community Works.
Our first 3 sessions will be on January 20th, February 17th, and March 16th from 1pm-3pm.
Our next 3 sessions will be on May 18th, June 15th, and July 20th and will happen from 2pm to 4pm.
We suggest a donation to attend each session: £5 for general admission (£10 for those able to donate a bit more) and registration is required. Donations are optional and shouldn’t be prohibitive to you attending, but all proceeds go to the running costs of the Oxford Poetry Library and our ability to continue providing these sorts of sessions.
Facilitated by the established writers and prolific readers Alan Buckley and Vanessa Lampert
The building is accessible, but if you have any specific access needs, please drop us an email at oxfordpoetrylibrary@gmail.com beforehand.
