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Thursday 4 July 2019

Upcoming Events, July 2019

1) Our July monthly meeting will take the form of a summer party on Friday 19 July hosted by Howard Norton and David Page at Rye View. Members should have received details in a recent e-mail from Hilary Roome.

 2) On Saturday 13th July at 4pm, as part of the JAM on the Marsh Festival, Jonty will read from his sequence of 22 poems , entitled BEFORE, and published as a book last year.  The cellist, Helen Thomas (London Philharmonic Orchestra), will perform excerpts from Bach's Cello Suites.

The venue is:
St Mary the Virgin Church
St Mary in the Marsh
New Romney
Kent
TN29 0BX

Link to map from Marsh Festival website: CLICK HERE


3) Rye Arts Festival 14 to 28 September 2019 Here's a link to the "Literary" part of the programme:
CLICK HERE

On the Rye Arts Festival web site you can also find details of the Music and other events, with details of how to book for all events.

Quiz Answers:

 

TS Eliot                           Thomas Stearns
HG Wells                         Herbert George
JRR Tolkien                     John Ronald Reuel
PD James                         Phyllis Dorothy
Dorothy L Sayers             Leigh
Jerome K Jerome             Klapka
JG Ballard                        James Graham
AA Milne                         Alan Alexander
VS Pritchett                      Victor Sawdon
EE Cummings                   Edward Estin
WB Yeats                          William Butler
PG Wodehouse                  Pelham Grenville
WH Auden                        Wystan Hugh
JM Barrie                           James Matthew
EB White                           Elwyn Brooks
CS Lewis                           Clive Staples
JK Rowling                        Joanne K (or Kathleen*)
LM Montgomery               Lucy Maud
Arthur C Clarke                 Charles
CJ Driver                            Charles Jonathan (Jonty)

*Apparently, Joanne Rowling was told by her agent or publisher that she would benefit from an extra initial. She chose "K" possibly because her mother was "Kathleen"
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