A great evening yesterday at Deepspaceworks Community Arts Centre here in Cheltenham - "Imagine: Introducing The Pleasure Of Poetry", the inaugural event of the New Bohemians, founded by Su Billington, Jennie Farley and Eley Furrell. It had been advertised as an "evening of creativity and fun" for "practicing writers, 'closet' poets, listeners and those looking to learn" and it certainly did not disappoint.
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| Jennie Farley |
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| Eley Furrell |
We started by sharing some of our favourite poems - a wonderfully broad selection encompassing such diverse voices as Edward Lear, Hardy, U. A. Fanthorpe, Sylvia Plath, R. L Stevenson and Carol Anne Duffy. Then, after a short refreshment break, the fun part - creating a poem based on a selection of phrases inspired by a surrealist painting and chosen at random from Jennie's shopping bag - some suprisingly interesting results!
The next meeting of the New Bohemians will be on Friday April 17th - with poems and music based on "Heroes and Heroines", it will certainly be enthusiatically awaited.
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| Iris reads from "The World's Wife" |
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| Annie - a Robert Louis Stevenson fan |
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| Penny reads an old favourite |
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A very small painter ignores her servant
and paints cabbages.
Who is the painter?
Whose is the portrait?
The Chinaman considers the savoy,
decides pak choi cannot be substituted -
and still I hear the bird's wings
flapping in its cage .... |
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