Walpole Old Chapel 2024 – Suffolk Poetry Society

The 2024 Summer outing at Walpole Old Chapel was held on 9 June. The theme was ‘Non-conforming’, which was very appropriate for the venue.

This was the running order:

Virginia Betts	Masking
	The unhealthy stuff
	Synaesthesia
Phil Baker	What Colour is Nine
	Low-life
James Frankland	Labels
	Keep off the grass
	Pietà-Beáta
Paul McLintic	Admit One
Sue Wallace Shaddad	Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
	Christabel Pankhurst
	Dame Freya Stark
Florence Cox	Hairbrush
	Brother
	Displacement
Claire Hamburger	The Gynaecologist of Gaza
	Secret Garden
Joe Hobbs	Margery Kempe Prompts a Question
	From a Refuge
Elizabeth Bracken	Miss Smith does not take tea with General Haig
	This was English
Ian Hartley	The Visit 1985
	USAF Molesworth 1985
Diane Jackman	Rules of War
Lynne Nesbit	Wailing Wall
Alistair Bamford	I want (doesn’t get)
	Instructions for writing poetry
Gordon Hoyle	On non-conforming
	Non-conforming
	Non-conformists
Mark Jefferies	To conform or not to conform? – that is the question
	Conform? Moi?
Caroline Gay Way	The Nonconformist / Bird Brain Ideas
Sue Foster	Prince
	Instead of Romance
	The Rebelliousness of Wellington Boots
by Kaaren Whitney, read by Sue Foster	More than Brown Straw
Wally Smith	Rebel
	Fancy Food
Sally E Gardner	Is there anything I can bring?
	Monochrome 1960
	Freya the walrus
Sally East	It was the Day My Grandmother Exploded and this is What Happened
	Murdering Mother
Mai Black	Bearded Dragon Pogona
	The Lady and the Goblin
Julia Duke	Gathering Selves like Mushrooms
	Night and Day and the Problems of Being
Anne Boileau	Epiphany
	We called him Captain Hook
Col Farrell	Gull
	Sonnet on Rash Optimism
Gillian Rennie-Dunkerley	Chelsea Show Gardens
Diane Jackman	Elderly Truant
	Against the rules
Lynne Nesbit	Semi-detached
	Tenderly