A Poetry Recital on Book Day with The Official Language School of San Javier
and Stanza Mar Menor.
They had courage. The mature students of this school stepped up to the microphone and delivered ten poems, in English, of First World War Poetry. The poems included 'Glory of Women' by Siegfried Sassoon, 'Here Dead We Lie' by A E Housman and the well known, 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke. Some of the selection was easier to read than others but congratulations to them all for reading these poems.
The second part included other work by some well known names. However two Stanza Mar Menor members read their own work. Margaret Rowland read her 'Flamenco' to great applause. David Leslie Urion read his down-to-earth humorous poem entitled 'Mr Scruffy Buffadonkalo' with laughter being raised almost by line by line. Congratulations to them both. On a more serious note I read 'Mid-term Break' by Seamus Heaney - a classic poem in my view.
It was a literary evening with everyone being welcoming and friendly. We would like to do it again and maybe we will. I also hope that some of these students will attend the Stanza meetings and thereby incorporating them into our group and us into their lives.
Our next stanza meetings will be on Friday 16th May and Friday 30th May in San Javier.
