How do I love my college library? Let me count the ways.I love it to the depth and breadth and heightMy shelf can reach, when reading late at nightTo the ends of chapters, bookmarking my place... National Poetry Day 2021 It's National Poetry Day! Again!? Gosh, didn't that year go fast? Not that we are complaining here at SGS LibraryPlus+, because we love poetry! Every day … [Read more...]
National Poetry Day at SGS LRC
Bridegroom, dear to my heart,Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet,Lion, dear to my heart,Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet. You have just read the opening lines of a 4,000 year old love poem! How cool is that?! It is called The Love Song For Shu-Shin, and was discovered in 1845 by archaeologist Austen Henry Layard in excavations of ancient Sumer (modern day Iraq)! Poetry is as old … [Read more...]
Haiku Workshop with Paul Chambers
To celebrate National Poetry Day, Filton LRC has organised a session with award-winning poet, Paul Chambers. Join us in the LRC at 12pm today and you won't regret it. Here's the lowdown about the Haiku Workshop: Watch Paul perform some of his best work Learn how to write your own award-winning haikus Write a haiku and compete with other attendees to win an LRC … [Read more...]
