ZOOMING WITH THE 1000 MONKEYS IN MARCH 2023

.Our meeting on March 7th 2023 was hosted in rather croaky fashion by Janice, who was recovering from an unfashionably late dose of Covid 19 — she's getting over it now, almost a week later, and still managed to enjoy the poems read by the 'Monkeys'. There was a very high standard again and we're sharing samples from several of them here. 

The readers were Peter Taylor; ​Phil Lawder; Timothy Adès; Gerald Killingworth; Jeremy Loynes; Rod Whitworth; Dino Mahoney; Ray Pool; Ranald Barnicot; Heather Moulson; Jean Hall; Joan Michelson; Claudia Court, and Carla Scarano D'Antonio.

We were very distressed to hear a few days after this meeting that Carla had passed away suddenly at home. She read one of her poems, and we had no idea that she was unwell. Carla was an influential member of the poetic community. She had just completed a PhD, had had two collections of her poems published and was a supportive reviewer. She was the Artist in Residence at The High Window and co-host of WriteOut Loud Woking, a face-to-face reading event in Surrey. Our thoughts go out to her family at this sad time.