A two part meeting:-

First, an evening of poems about Summer to transport us poetically from a cold and sometimes dismal time of year to somewhere perhaps warmer and brighter. Heather Murphy and June Colledge will present the first half of this meeting (re-scheduled from January)  No passports are necessary for our poetic travel with no airport queues either!

In the second half, we have poetry by member Ruth Hall who has given us a taste of her excellent poetry at some of our meetings and deserves a wider audience.

Note – Due to the January meeting being cancelled, the ‘open’ part of the January and February meetings will now held be at the extra ‘Open for Poetry’ meeting at Dawe’s Twineworks on Saturday March 21^st.

Juliet Lacey was born in India and educated abroad, before settling in England in the 1960s.  She read English at Oxford and worked in publishing before training as an actor at RADA.  Her acting career included 3 seasons with the RSC, leading roles in rep and the London fringe and appearances in TV soaps such as Man of Straw, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads and Open All Hours. After retiring from acting to bring up her daughters, she worked for many years as tutor and director at RADA and other acting schools. Her handbook for students Performing Shakespeare is published by Samuel French.

She has written 9 plays, two of them prize winners; the most recent, The Long Bones about the poet Alun Lewis, was shown at the White Bear Theatre, London in 2018.

She has written poetry all her life, and her poems have been placed in several competitions, including 3rd prize in the International Strokestown Competition, and featured in magazines such as The Interpreter’s House and Agenda, and in the anthologies Building Jerusalem and Hollow Palaces. She currently leads a Poetry Appreciation group for the Crewkerne U3A.