Saturday 27 October – Programme of Events | ||
9.45am | An A to Z of A.E.H. – Linda Hart covers Housman’s Life in a 26 stop journey that will in turns be erudite and entertaining, serious and stimulating | |
11.00am | Coffee | |
11.30am | Introduction to Last Poems by Andrew Maund, followed by members’ reading of the poems to celebrate the collection’s 90th Anniversary | |
1.00pm | Lunch | |
2.0pm | Dear Mrs Ashbee – The Letters of Laurence Housman and Janet Ashbee. A performance created by Celia Jones and Pamela Marshall | |
3.15pm | Victorian Pessimism – talk by Nicholas Shrimpton, Emeritus Fellow Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | |
4.15pm | Tea | |
4.45pm | “I think I am in Love with A.E. Housman…..” Wendy Cope reads her own poems and A.E.H.’s poetry | |
7.30pm |
Dinner After coffee. A light-hearted look at Parodies, Light Verse and Worsewith Elizabeth Oakley |
Full Weekend including 2 nights accommodation, 2 lunches, 2 dinners (all with wine), a concert and all events. £250.00 (positively no extras!)
As above but without accommodation £95.00
Individual packages arranged to suit delegates needs. Bookings & package request through