Chichester Literary Society

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Next Meeting

Wed 5 November

Beast, Angel and Madman; the

controversial truth about Dylan Thomas

Presented by Josh Brown

A brief AGM hosted by Simon Brett will take place before the talk.

 

CLS Full Programme 2025

Available to download from link below or see our Events page calendar.

CLS 2025 Brochure pdf-1

Membership Details

Please see our About page.

Visitors/Non-members £8

On the door.

Students £2 on the door.

 

 

Meeting Venue

Boxgrove Village Hall,

PO18 OEE

Large free car park and a bus stop at the venue.

Stagecoach Bus Services link below:

https://www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-offers/south/chichester-services

Details

Wed 5 November

2pm

  Beast, Angel and Madman;

the controversial truth about Dylan Thomas

Presented by Josh Brown

This talk, based on his controversial and ground-breaking book demolishes popular and persistent myths about Wales’s greatest poet. Josh presents Dylan Thomas as a revolutionary figure in modern literature who democratised poetry, leading the way for performance poetry an Rap, with a uniquely personal view of the world, based on political convictions and ancient bardic traditions, reshaped for the modern era.

 

See below Photos and reports (Journal/Talks page) on Oct ’25, Fay Shaefer (Sweeney Todd) and David Warwick Sept. talk on life in a wartime Hampshire village.

Local Literary News and Events

New book shop in South St. Chichester!

Open Mic Poetry Chichester

For more information please go to the website below.

Guest poets launch each session followed by an open mic. Listeners equally welcome. 7.30pm

 JUBILEE HALL, NEW PARK CENTRE, CHICHESTER, PO19 7XY.

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Jean Rhys
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
Carl Sagan
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Mary Wortley Montague.

We welcome old and new members and visitors to Boxgrove Village Hall.

Fay Shaefer