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 2025
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 Room | Topic | Topic Leader |
| 14 January | Norman Selfe Room | Musicians and Their Poems | Lynne |
| 11 February | Norman Selfe Room | How Poetry Works and Why It Matters | Peter R. |
| 11 March | Norman Selfe Room | Travel | Sarah |
| 8 April | Norman Selfe Room | Light | Barbara |
| 13 May | Norman Selfe Room | Two Victorian Women Poets: Elizabeth Barret Browning and Emily Bronte | Laurel D. |
| 10 June | Norman Selfe Room | Walt Whitman | Harry |
| 8 July | Norman Selfe Room | Chaucer | Drew |
| 12 August | Norman Selfe Room | Gardens | Mar |
| 9 September | Norman Selfe Room | No Topic * | Peter R. |
| 14 October | Norman Selfe Room | Chinese Poetry in Translation | Laurel D. |
| 11 November | Norman Selfe Room | Pablo Neruda | Marcelle |
| 9 December | Norman Selfe Room | Songs in Shakespeare | Guest Presenters |
*For “No Topic”, perhaps you might like to consider poems that might suit the topics that just missed out: “The Poems of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter” and “Misery v Love”.