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COOKHAM FESTIVAL 2009 A Celebration of Arts and Music Friday 24 April 2009 - Monday 4 May 2009 |
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2009 Cookham Festival Highlights |
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APRIL SHOWERS POETRY EVENING 28 April 2009 - COOKHAM DEAN WI HALL with thanks to Ros Joynes and Mike Springate |
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Mike Springate waxes lyrical |
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The lovers of poetry come in many guises but somewhere in their life poetry or a single poem has stirred, so succinctly, a wave of emotion that it is sometimes hard to comprehend has come from so few simple lines.
On Tuesday’s poetry evening forty lovers of poetry listened and shared some poems to make us smile, to make us think, to make us sink into the sights and smells of spring.
A wonderful evening, when can we do this again...... please?
The evening was directed by
local poet Mike Springate. The evening included a home-cooked
meal, but people brought their own wine. |
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The April Showers Poetry Evening at this year's Festival prompted a number of poets from in and around Cookham to bring their own work to read. The following are just some of the poems we heard during the evening.
The Heralds of Summer - Gail Dorrington
Sunday Evening Song - Mike Springate
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| SOME OF THE POETRY READERS | |
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| Patrick Bell | Wendy Craig |
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| Ben Aston | Gwen Francis |
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| Sylvia Hull | Full House |
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| Wendy Craig with her BBQ | |
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