Our next book club meeting offers something a little different – a collection of poetry arranged and designed to help address everyday problems and difficulties. As heard on BBC Radio 4, the essential prescriptions from William Sieghart’s poetic dispensary. ” Sometimes only a poem will do. These poetic prescriptions and wise words of advice offer comfort, delight and inspiration for…
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Do we read too much, too fast and too mindlessly? That’s the question posed by our guest speaker Daphne Loads (an expert in learning and teaching from the University of Edinburgh) at this month’s meeting of the ‘secular congregation’. She writes: “How do you read? Drowning in neverending email? Rapidly devouring whodunnits, then immediately forgetting them? Perhaps you are seduced…
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