We're taking the train for our next poetry group on Wednesday 23 May 2012. No apologies for a double dose of John Betjeman: he was the master of railway poetry after all ...
- Adlestrop, by Edward Thomas (1917)
- Middlesex, by John Betjeman (1953)
- Dilton Marsh Halt, by John Betjeman (1968) - because it's only just up the road!
- Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat, by T S Eliot (1939) - his parody of Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem l'Envoi (also known as The Long Trail) from Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses
If we've got time we'll also look at:
- Morning Express, by Siegfried Sassoon (1915)
- The Night Mail, by W H Auden (1936)
