All events take place at Luton Irish Forum, 102 Hitchin Road, Luton LU2 0ES unless otherwise shown.
GUEST READER
Stephen Claughton
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When:-
13th Jun 2023 at 8.00 pm
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THEME EVENING
Holidays
led by
John Godfrey
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11th Jul at 8.00 pm
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THEME EVENING
Journeys
led by
Kate Silwood
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12th Sep at 8.00 pm
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Stephen Claughton grew up in Manchester, read English at Oxford, and worked for many years as a civil servant in London.
Twice nominated for the Forward Best Single Poem Prize, his poetry has appeared widely in magazines, both in print and online. He has published two pamphlets, The War with Hannibal (Poetry Salzburg, 2019) and The 3-D Clock (Dempsey & Windle, 2020).
A member of Ver Poets, he reviews regularly for The High Window and London Grip.
Website: www.stephenclaughton.com
Summer holidays (with or without Cliff Richard), Winter holidays, and dream holidays; school holidays, bank holidays, and busman’s holidays; seaside holidays, walking holidays, and camping holidays; holiday hotels, holiday snaps, holiday romances, and so-called holidays-of-a-lifetime.
Holiday plans, holiday packing and “Are we there yet?” Traffic jams on the Exeter bypass (remember those?) and not forgetting the last day of the holidays.
Bring holiday poems, by you or someone else, and we’ll take a holiday from the present for a couple of hours.
Life is full of journeys: from animal and bird migrations to human travel on foot or by road, rail, air or water; from commutes and tourism to pilgrimages and voyages of exploration.
In fact the journey is a common metaphor for our path through life.
So there should be plenty to inspire as we share poems, our own or others, on this wide theme.