Oundelians and T.S. Eliot
It was T.S. Eliot's visit to the hamlet of Little Gidding, some eight miles to the south-east of Oundle, which inspired him to write one of the greatest poems in the English language. To celebrate the 70th anniversary of his visit, his widow Valerie Eliot announced the formation of the T.S. Eliot Society of Great Britain on 21st May, during a weekend celebrating Eliot's life and works.
The event was also covered by The Daily Telegraph on Saturday in a piece entitled A big day for TS Eliot's Little Gidding.
Ruth Padel, Chair of the Poetry Society, awarded a prize to Shanna Martens
(L) for her poem Swan's Island, and during the afternoon the audience
was entertained by the Rylands Jazz Trio.
On Saturday evening, the Reverend Dr Malcolm Guite, Chaplain of Girton College,
Cambridge, read Little Gidding from Eliot's Four Quartets,
and afterwards the Undelan trio, Eric Tung (C), Cecily Smith (K), and Kate
Mason (L), performed Beethoven's Third Piano Trio in C minor in the Church
of St John.
Megan Smedley