Stanza News: Dorset

Bridport
Dorchester
Poole

Bridport
Contact: Carole Buchanan-Brown (mansville AT btinternet.com or 01308 488 759) 

Bridport Stanza meets regularly. We read a selection of our own poems. We have been halfheartedly attempting "homework" inspired by an article in poetry news (I believe) that suggested writing poems based on a favourite word. To spice things up a little we then placed the words into a saucer and picked a random word. This proved to be a challenging task. I ended up with the word "smile", which to avoid cliches emerged as a sad poem.

Dorchester
Contact: Pam Zinnemann-Hope (pam AT zhope.co.uk or 01300 320 826)

Paul Hyland at Dorchester Stanza's centenary celebrationsPaul Hyland performs magic at Dorchester Stanza's centenary celebrations, October 2009

* On March 13th Graham Fawcett will be back for a day of close reading of Dante’s ‘Purgatorio’. See his website for details.

Poole
Contact: Nick Bushell (nick at giftedandgeek.com)

This Stanza is arranged in conjunction with the Poole poetry group, which has been going about 3 months. There is a small charge of £2 to cover costs and provide teas/coffee etc for each meeting.

Meetings will be held at Fourways Centre, Constitution Hill, Poole, Dorset BH14 0PZ

The next meeting dates are:

24th Feb
10th March
24th March
7th April
21st April

Please look at the Poole poetry web site for more information: http://poolepoetrygroup.com. This also more contains information on meetings.

* Performing Poetry - Some Tricks of The Trade. A workshop with John Barclay, Performance Poet. 24 March 2010 @ 7.30pm. Fourways Centre, Constitution Hill Road, Poole. www.poolepoetrygroup.com/