Poetry Group: Kipling, Nov 14th, with Special Guest

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The next Poetry Group session at the White Lion on Nov 14th will be on Rudyard Kipling, with a Special Guest - the poet’s biographer Andrew Lycett.

Andrew will introduce the poet and ‘lead’ the session, and the format of reading/discussion will be the same as usual. He has made his own selection of poems to include some ‘less obvious’ as well as some of the classics:

Danny Deever
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46782/danny-deever

Chant-Pagan
https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/chant_pagan.html

Recessional
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46780/recessional

Harp Song of the Dane Women
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47691/harp-song-of-the-dane-women

My Boy Jack
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_jack.htm

Mesopotamia
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57430/mesopotamia-56d23af3008a7

We and They
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_wethey.htm

Buddha at Kamakura
http://themargins.net/anth/19thc/kipling.html

My Rival
https://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/Classic Poems/Kipling/my_rival.htm

Merrow Down
http://www.bartleby.com/364/340.html

The Two-Sided Man
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_twosides.htm

We may not get through all of them - perhaps we can take a selection. I think we will see a side to Kipling different to the usual 'empire jingoist' reading that keeps him off most bookshelves today. In case anyone wants to explore further, Andrew has also sent a list of poems recommended for 'further reading’:

Chartres Window
The Exile Line
Hymn of Breaking Strain
The Last Rhyme of True Thomas
a bit from M'Andrew's Hymn
The Way through the Woods
Gethsemane
Tin Fish