Stanza News: Suffolk
Poetry Anglia
Suffolk Poetry Society
Contact: Fred Ellis (01728 833 094 or fred AT poetryanglia.org)
PoetryAnglia is wide area network of individual poets and poetry-lovers as well as local poetry cafés and other groups that wish to share and extend the poetic experience. We are a network of people; a self-organising, spontaneous, warm-blooded network that crackles with energy and the exchange of poets, poetry, ideas and challenges!
Our model has evolved in response to the need of people to share their experience of poetry even though they live in a widely dispersed, largely rural, area that has within it some large towns and a few urban conurbations. It will continue to evolve as contemporary poetry and the world around us changes but as of today - it works!
Though our roots are in East Anglia our network is open to all and we would not be so successful without the friendship and influence of distant poets that love what we are doing and are determined to be part of it. The PoetryAnglia network links local poetry groups but also extends internationally as a Stanza of The Poetry Society, thus providing a resource for poetry-people at all levels who wish to grow through the promotion of knowledge, appreciation, writing, speaking and performance of poetry.
It is not necessary to be a member of The Poetry Society nor subscribe to PoetryAnglia although subscriptions and donations are always welcome because although we enjoy the support of sponsors and receive occasional grants, we are essentially a body of self-funded volunteers.
The combination of community groups, with regional activity means that poetry is available and affordable with a minimal carbon footprint. Yet, at the same time, members who wish to widen their horizons have the means to do so through our programme of regional activities which we stage around East Anglia, rather like a travelling company. Yes we are really a network and not centred!
Formerly the Coast and Brecks Stanza.
Suffolk Poetry Society Stanza
Contact: Ivor Murrell (ivor.murrell @ btinternet.com or 01728 648 462). Further information can be found on www.suffolkpoetrysociety.org.uk/
26 May 2012. KATE FOLEY leads a workshop for Suffolk Poetry Society ‘Tree- Ring Time Clock-Time’. It is time to stand back and consider a deeper context for our writing. What does the slow, tree-ring growth of personal history and history in its wider sense mean to us as we live our lives in clock-time? A workshop for 10 poets on Saturday May 26th from 11 am to 4 pm. Cost £35, lunch included, at Victoria House, Lambseth Street, Eye, IP23 7AQ. Contact Anne Boileau on 01376 563714 for details.
The Suffolk Poetry Society has members across the breadth of Suffolk and beyond. It was formed as The Suffolk Poetry Club a few years before 1930 and prospered quietly until the Second World War. In 1952 two members decided to revive the organisation, and it became the Suffolk Poetry Society. As has been noted by a former SPS Chairman “The first 50 years were glorious” but after the Millennium the Society had to redefine itself, and struggled for a while until new enthusiasts re-awakened its activities; a development that still continues.
The Suffolk Poetry Society has run the annual Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition for almost sixty years, making it one of the oldest in England. In its time the ‘Crabbe’ has been judged by many eminent poets including John Betjeman, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin and more recently Andrew Motion and George Szirtes.
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