Wokingham Literary Society
Past programmes
2007/2008
| Sep 20th 2007 | Investigating Spies : Exploring Frayn's novel |
| October 4th | Hitching a Lift on the Wagon of Fame : Prequels, sequels, borrowings and rewrites |
| October 18th | A Good Read : Radio 4 Format with Literary Society contributors |
| November 1st | Thresholds : Houses in the Nineteenth Century Novel |
| November 15th | Poets Laureate, all nineteen of them |
| November 29th | The Other Man's Grass |
| December 6th | A Christmas Present from (and by) the Committee |
| January 17th 2008 | Thomas Hardy, the Man and his Poetry |
| January 31st | The Four Gospels : A Literary Triumph |
| February 7th | Creative Literary Partnerships |
| February 21st | Literary London |
| March 6th | From Book to Film |
| March 27th | Some Novels of Robin Jenkins |
| April 3rd | Alive and Well and Writing Poetry : the work of Living Poets |
| April 24th | Annual General Meeting |
2006/2007
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Sep 21st 2006 |
Marriage, Governess, Writer : the 19th Century gentlewoman's choice in life and literature |
| Oct 5th |
A Shropshire Lad : A E Housman and Modern Composers |
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Oct 19th |
Memory and Identity : Austerlitz |
| Nov 2nd |
Two recent novels about Henry James. Colm Toibin - The Master and David Lodge - Author, Author |
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Nov 16th |
The Perfect Play : says nothing but promises everything |
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Nov 30th |
Spike Milligan, Author, Poet |
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Dec 7th |
Members' Evening - Parties in Literature |
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Jan 4th 2007 |
The Twenties |
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Jan 18th |
T S Eliot : a literary landmark |
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Feb 1st |
The Adult Novels of Russell Hoban |
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Feb 15th |
Venice : A magnet for writers |
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Mar 1st |
Concrete Poetry |
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Mar 15th |
Desert Island Books |
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Mar 29th |
Monsters and Other Creatures : Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon Poetry |
2005/2006
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Sep 15th 2005 |
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes 1605-2005 |
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Sep 29th |
'Packing a Punch' - T Hood, H Mayhew and D Jerrold |
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Oct 6th |
A dramatic presentation of the poet John Clare |
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Oct 20th |
'Exploring Difficult Territory' - the novels of Pat Barker |
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Nov 3rd |
Members' evening - 'the elegancy, facility and golden cadence of poesy' |
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Nov 17th |
W H Auden - an ExtraAUDENary poet |
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Dec 1st |
The Genius of Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Dec 15th |
Christmas in Poetry and Prose |
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Jan 5th 2006 |
The 17th Century into the Modern Ages |
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Jan 19th |
MR James : Old Spooks and New |
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Feb 2nd |
Perdita : Royal Mistress, Writer, Romantic, the Life of Mary Robinson |
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Feb 16th |
Mr. and Mrs. Browning in Florence |
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Mar 2nd |
Printed Ephemera : what is it and what can be done with it |
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Mar 16th |
London as Dickens saw it |
2004/2005
| Sep 16th 2004 | No Fixed Abode : Nomads in Literature |
| Sep 30th | The Tug of Love and War in Sebastian Faulks |
| Oct 7th | "No More unto the Breach" - Staging Henry V at the Globe |
| Oct 21st | Mervyn Peake - an illustrated talk : his poetry, novels, paintings and illustrations |
| Nov 4th | 50 years of the Wokingham Literary Society |
| Nov 18th | Connections : Art, Literature and Espionage |
| Dec 2nd | High Life, Low Life |
| Dec 16th | Christmas Readings, followed by Literary Fun and Games |
| Jan 6th 2005 | Edith Somerville : An Independent Woman |
| Jan 20th | Uniquely British : PG Wodehouse, Alan Bennett and George and Weedon Grossmith |
| Feb 3rd | Revolution in the English Theatre : Terence Rattigan to the "Angry Young Men" |
| Feb 17th | Penelope Fitzgerald : Two Historical Novels |
| Mar 3rd | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : Detection, Dinosaurs, Duty and Delusion |
| Mar 17th | In the Steps of the Brontes : Haworth to Brussels |
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