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ted

I wouldn't have any problem w/ poetry or plays. Arcadia is great and I actually have Housman on the active pile so I would enjoy either of them.

Ros

I am not really an active member of the bookgroup, so you should ignore this, but I wanted to say that I adore A Shropshire Lad and would be very interested to see what your readers make of those blue remembered hills.

efi

why not only olease choose somethin available for buying.
efi.

Barbara

A Shropshire Lad is one of those poems I know lots of quotes from yet have never read properly. I would welcome the spur (if I can find my mother's copy).

Dark Puss

Neither turned off or on! I'm not a fan of Housman but so what? The point of the CBG is to break down prejudice. Very happy to have a play or a poem as the next choice. Let me throw this little known play into the hat: Desire Caught by the Tail by Pablo Picasso. It will also make your cooking choice easy (in some respects).

Anne

I am happy to try either. (or both)

GeraniumCat

I would be happy to read with either or other plays and poetry, thouh whether our library will be able to oblige is anyone's guess. Still, my own collection is reasonable so there's a chance I might already have something! Desire Caught by the Tail I have read (and own) but I'm not sure if I'd choose to read it again. My husband was in a student production, and it wasn't a pretty sight.

Lindsay

Naturally I would be delighted to (re)read either. I wish all my proposals at work drew such support!

Barbara MacLeod

I had not known Picasso wrote a play. The title intrigues me. May I second this nomination.

Dark Puss

As an alternative to Housman how about Eliot's The Wasteland? Or October by Louise Gluck?

adele geras

Happy with poetry and plays in general and a great lover of AEHousman!
Are they all easy to get hold of? Shropshire Lad shouldn't be a problem but plays?

Nan

I love the idea of both. Though I haven't been a participant before, it isn't because of lack of interest. I've found myself thinking a lot lately about the play, Our Town. I read it as a girl, and it has stayed with me like no other.

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