This month’s poems were all about the night – Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, The Listeners by Walter de la Mare and The Smugglers Song by Rudyard Kipling.
The first two in were inspired by Under Milk Wood and its uforgettable introduction: “It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters’-and- rabbits’ wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea…“
Under Milk Wood by Rachel Under Milk Wood by Mavis