Dead Poets' Day Programme

A lovely day when we spend an hour for each of our dead poets. Hardy and Betjemann feel particularly autumnal, while we have neglected the lighter side of life.

8 am - Thomas Hardy

9 am - John Betjemann

10 am - Christina Rossetti

11 am - Kirsty MacColl

12 noon (the lunch spot) A Lear and Carroll Miscellany

1 pm - Gerald Manley Hopkins

1.30 pm - Susan Womanley Hopkins (his lesser-known sister)

1.45 pm - Bernard Beastley Hopkins (the brother they tried to keep quiet about)

2 pm - The Scottish Hour: William McGonagall, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott

3 pm - The Welsh Hour: Max Boyce, William Williams, Dylan Thomas

4 pm - The South Midlands Hour: William Shakespeare, John Clare, John Dryden 

5pm - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

6 pm - The People's Choice

7 pm - Dinner

Now, I want you all looking very smart and intellectual, and I don't want anybody misplacing the apostrophe in Poets'. Somebody came to our blog the other day having searched in Google for "Pedantry and Distraction". And that's not the sort of reputation I want to lose lightly.