Peter Tait presents an evening about this huge but little-known part of the world : a vast ocean containing a multitude of islands, peoples and languages.

Bring a poem written by any of our Poet Laureates.  There have been 21 Poet Laureates, starting with John Dryden in 1668 all the way to the present Laureate, Simon Armitage – so there is quite a wide choice to pick from.

The second half of the meeting will be an Open Meeting so for this part of the meeting bring any poem that you feel will interest the group – either one you have written or by any other poet – or even one by a different Poet Laureate.

Or just come and enjoy the poetry.

Throughout the year members have been writing poems for ‘The Project’.

This year the ‘Historic Counties of England’ has been the Project theme and we hope all of the counties will be covered.   Members have chosen, been allocated or picked at random, one or two of the Historic Counties in order to achieve full coverage.   It would have been good to have covered all the Historic Counties of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland but constraints of space and members time have limited us to the 39 English Historic counties.

We hope to read all the poems at this meeting.