Our competition evening is always a good evening and this year based around the theme ‘Ten’.  We read all the entries at this meeting and announced the winners.  This year our judge is local author and poet, James Crowden.

Iona Lambe, Amelia Bennett, Anna Webb and Heather Murphy were the prize winners in the four sections of the competition.

See our ‘Competitions’ page for details.

The September meeting of the East Coker Poetry Group was something different : a joint open meeting with some of the Bridport Poets.   This was be held at The Fox Inn at Corscombe.

A theme?  – something fun – and it was!

This open meeting will be a ‘themed’ meeting  – poems connected with ‘The Sea’ if possible but poems on any subject can be read if you have nothing inspiring on our ‘theme’ !      £2.00 entrance

This Summer, our meetings will be open meetings – bring some poetry – read some poetry – listen to some poetry.  Always popular.  £2 entrance

Come and read some poems or just come and listen.  Always popular.  £2 entrance.

The East Coker Poetry Group was 10 years old in May.  What better way to celebrate than have a poetry party.

We had food, wine, a competition and ….poetry of course.  Poet Catherine Simmonds started the poetry readings and this was followed by readings from several local poetry groups.   A good time was had by all….

This meeting was a mix of poems and images.  The range and variety of poems/images made for a fascinating evening.

“Lyrics in Popular Songs”  –  to accompany a meal.

This was a topic we covered a few years ago and it was felt that there is still a huge wealth of material to be used including anything from Cole Porter to The Beatles. 

Heather and Julie did well keeping the evening together despite difficulties with the delay in serving the meal.

However it was a light-hearted and rather different meeting and it cheered a Winters evening. 

As usual, a very varied selection of poems made this a very good meeting – as these open meetings always are!

The West Coker Poets crossed the border to East Coker to put their slant on local Poetry.  A lively and varied programme of poetry and music.