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		<description><![CDATA[Stars and Sperm Whales at the Poetry Room A dog that thinks it’s a horse.  A panda that thinks it’s a Beatle.  Poetry that thinks its prose – or the other way round? This September at the Poetry Room we will be discussing Simon Armitage’s Seeing Stars:  a disorientating poetry collection full of heart and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=451</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Poems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was another warm summer’s evening as we gathered in the Poetry Room for our last session of the season. The readaround of everyone’s current favourite poems was wide-ranging and impressive, covering an 18th century diatribe against slavery, an attempt to articulate the violence in Ulster, a defiantly illicit interlude from a hotel room, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Any old poems?  (or new ones) at the Poetry Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month at the Poetry Room we&#8217;re asking people to bring along a poem.  It can be comic, serious, rhyming, non-rhyming, famous or not, in form or &#8230; you get the picture.  The only qualifications are that you should love it and want to share it, and it should be written by someone other than yourself(!) Looking forward [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=442</link>
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		<title>Having a drink with Hugo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Due to crossed wires and closed doors, last night’s Poetry Room reconvened in the convivial atmosphere of The Crow’s Nest (I hope any late-comers saw our note!)  After a few flourishes of our poetry books we soon had a quiet corner to ourselves and got on with the matter in hand – discussing Hugo Williams’ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=434</link>
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		<title>Curtain Up for West End Final</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sex, Eton and acting &#8211; sound like your kind of thing?  If so, come along to The Poetry Room on Tuesday 8 June from 6.15pm-8pm at Blackwell&#8217;s bookshop, Newcastle where we will be discussing Hugo Williams&#8217;s show-stopping tenth collection West End Final. The poems we will be looking at in particular are: Heavy Father Ghost Train And God Created [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=431</link>
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		<title>Game-Playing and Grave-Hopping:  Durcan at the Poetry Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a full house at the Poetry Room this month as we entered the strange and beautiful world of Paul Durcan.  Many thanks to everyone who came along and helped make such an interesting evening.       We started by looking at ‘Sport’.  The poem describes a young man, watched by his father, playing football [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=390</link>
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		<title>Post-Bank Holiday Blues?  Delight in Durcan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often someone comes along to the Poetry Room expecting to see the poet whose work we are discussing.  We can’t promise Paul Durcan this month but he is on his way!  The poet, whose recitals are the stuff of legend, will be reading in Newcastle on  10 June 2010 [www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/] To get in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=385</link>
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		<title>A Mirror in His Eyes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night we gathered in the Poetry Room to look at a small film about rain, two trees, together and apart, two sons and a poet ‘as pale-skinned as the moon’ (not quite finding time for ‘the one hand’s kindness to the other’, in Correctives, or The Lie, ‘his drip changed and his shackle all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=382</link>
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		<title>‘It’s the poetry again’*</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The publication of Scottish poet Don Paterson’s debut collection Nil Nil in 1993 announced the arrival of a significant talent. Since then his work has gone through a fascinating process of distillation, culminating in the stunning simplicity of the poems in his sixth collection, Rain, reminiscent of the uncompromising utterances of poets like Blake and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=380</link>
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		<title>Power, pearls and playgrounds at the Poetry Room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With many poetry laurels already to her crown, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy received perhaps the ultimate accolade this month:   the Poetry Room treatment!  New faces and old friends gathered at Blackwell’s bookshop – this time in their business department (!)- to discuss the Selected Poems.  We started with Standing Female Nude.  The setting of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.poetrybookgroup.com/?p=375</link>
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