This group meets on the second Tuesday of each month, 5:30 – 7:30 pm. Please scroll down for a list of meeting dates and information about monthly topics.
What’s On 
Poetry at SMSA 2024
Date & Time
For current meeting details and/or to join the group, please contact Group Coordinator Peter Rainey (details below).
Come along to our free discussion group for poetry lovers held on the second Tuesday of each month. Timings are from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm. Recite, listen to and discuss poems in an informal, friendly atmosphere. Half of each meeting is dedicated to a theme.
Offers to chair meetings are always welcome. So too are offers to lead discussion on a nominated poem. The only rule is that one can’t read one’s own poems.
Members’ Group – New Members Welcome
Group Coordinator: Peter Rainey
| Date | Meeting Type | Topic | Topic Leader |
| 16 January* | Norman Selfe Room | Coleridge’s “Christabel” : A Reading & Analysis | Peter R |
| 13 February | Norman Selfe Room | Poems in Translation | Kate |
| 12 March | Norman Selfe Room | Confinement and Liberty | Andy |
| 9 April | Norman Selfe Room | The Poetry of James Joyce | Harry |
| 14 May | Norman Selfe Room | Indigenous Australian Poetry | Laurel W |
| 11 June | Norman Selfe Room | John Donne and George Herbert (2 Metaphysical Poets) | Peter R |
| 9 July | Norman Selfe Room | Weather | Drew |
| 13 August | Norman Selfe Room | Four Quartets (“East Coker” & “Little Gidding”) | Peter K |
| 10 September | Norman Selfe Room | Goethe | Harry |
| 8 / 15 October | Norman Selfe Room | No Topic ** | Peter R |
| 12 November | Norman Selfe Room | Hope | Marcelle |
| 10 December | Norman Selfe Room | EE Cummings & Ogden Nash | Peter K |
* Note: the third Tuesday (not the second)
**For “No Topic”, perhaps you might like to consider poems that might suit the topics that just missed out: “American (and English) Beat Poets”, “Exile” and “ Two Victorian Poets: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Bronte”.