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Julia Darling presided at a Feast of Poetry held at the Literary & Philosophical Society on National Poetry Day, Thursday 7th October 2004.
Introducing a host of local poets, she said:
Poetry should be edible, delicious, mouthwatering. It should set our senses racing and our hearts beating. I am delighted to be presenting this particular banquet of poems, to celebrate National Poetry Day's theme of FOOD.
The Literary and Philosophical Society has thrown open the library doors to welcome a collection of the region's finest poets who each bring new, freshly baked poems to entertain you. Nothing is pre-cooked. There are poems about every kind of food, sweet and savoury, and like all good feasts there are poems for all palates.
And how right she was! Ellen Phethean remarked that she wasn't sure whether it was a Judy Chicago dinner party or a Peter Greenaway film. Tony Bowler's music offset the performers wonderfully.
On other pages: How To Behave With The Ill, Inside Out, Eating the Elephant, Sudden Blossoms, The Manifesto For Tyneside Upon England, The Great British Public Cold Calling, Attachments, The Writer's Choice, Doughnuts like Fanny's, Personal Belongings, The Last Post and Posties and The Lost Birds of England
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Last updated on 21 October 2004 by Roger Cornwell.
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