Virtual Read To Write
In 2020 and 2021 we were in the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic. Unable to meet in person, the Read To Write group ran sessions over Zoom. Here is a list of the sessions we ran in 2021. We had some fantastic guest readers from around the country who we would be unlikely to see in our Doncaster sessions. Things started to open up in September 2021 and we mixed online sessions with the return of Well Spoken on Thursdays.
I didn't keep a list for 2020 but I am doing detective work to try to piece the list of sessions together. Watch this space!
Completed Sessions
January 12th - Workshop session on holiday season poems
January 19th - Laura Potts Reading / Q+A plus "Room Remembered" writing exercise
January 26th - Sand House Postcard Poems launch
February 2nd - The Poetry of Alun Lewis (Tim & Matt Smith)
February 9th - Helen Mort Reading / Q+A / Workshop
February 16th - Valentine's Day Love Poem readround
February 23rd - Shane McGowan - The Great Hunger (Tim)
March 2nd - Lawrence Ferlinghetti & John Keats readround
March 9th - International Womens Day Lips&Gobs
March 16th - Sarah Wimbush Last Dinosaur in Doncaster Reading / Q+A
March 18th (one-off special) - Wilfred Owen's "Poems - 1920 edition" (Tim)
March 23rd - Andrew Oldham reading / Q+A
March 30th - One Year of Virtual Read To Write - our favourite poems
April 6th - Bob Horne reading / Q+A
April 13th - Jimmy Andrex Reading / Q+A / workshop
April 20th - Charlotte Wetton reading / Q+A
April 27th - The Life and Poems of Oscar Wilde (Tim)
May 4th - Sonnet read round
May 11th - Paul Brookes Reading / Q+A / Workshop
May 18th - Mayflower Sessions part 1 - Ian Parks (Persona poems)
May 25th - Mayflower Sessions part 2 - Ian Parks (Persona poem workshop)
June 1st - Guest poet - Penelope Shuttle
June 8th - Les Murray's Nature Poetry (Paul)
June 15th - The Beat Poets (Mick)
June 22nd - Guest poet - Fiona Perry, Q+A plus workshop
June 29th - no session
July 6th - The Poetry of James Wright (Tim)
July 13th - Harold Massingham, Selected Poems (Ian)