Each month we come together to read and talk about poems on a particular theme or penned by particular poets, which have been chosen in advance. Sometimes we celebrate the anniversary of an individual poem (Eliot’s The Waste Land) or poet (Larkin, Helen Dunmore); sometimes we arrange a group read of a long poem (Goblin Market, The Ancient Mariner); or we may read poems which have a personal significance. The range is great, from anon/Medieval to contemporary and anything in between from the English-speaking world. It can be heartrending or heartwarming or intellectually stimulating, usually extending our understanding of poetic form and always an enriching experience.