Monday 12 March 2012: Our First Meeting - Jewels and Gloves

This morning was our first meeting.  We got together round the kitchen table to read and talk about four short modern poems:

• Warming Her Pearls by Carol Ann Duffy
• Red Gloves by Andrew Motion
• Jane's Pearls by Alicia Stubbersfield
• Amber by Gillian Clarke

We found lots to talk about and to discover: the beautiful language, the crafting of the words, the way the poems made us feel, the memories they evoked and the shape of each of the verses.  We also discussed the masculine and feminine sense of each of the poems and whether we would have been able to identify the gender of each poet correctly if we hadn't known who had written them.  We felt we would!

Our next meeting is on Tuesday 17 April: four new poems to find!  What fun!