Catherine Simmonds, who won the poetry writing competition in 2004 with her poem Passion Fruit for Mrs McGrath, hosted “Moving On” an event around an audio piece about the working life of Karl Edwards, horse logger and farrier.

Burns supper and an evening of Scottish poetry with Mike Mould and Patricia Stewart.

Local poet Mark Greenstock and Judith Anthony read poems from her book An Anthony Anthology.

Clive Bingley recruited talented actors Trevor Peacock and Tilly Tremayne as readers for his poetry evening entitled Going Going Going Gone!

Reception to announce the winners of the East Coker poetry writing competition.

Knights of Passion with John Burgess and John Darling – an evening of verse chosen by two of the most debonair gentlemen in East Coker, designed to charm, woo and conquer.

Joyce Best and Jean Caunter treated us to some “Animal Magic”.

For our first meeting, Doreen Bates was the subject of “Desert Island Poems”. She picked 10 favourite poems to take with her to the deserted beach. The poems were read by Helen Backhouse.