OPS Book Group The second meeting of the Book Group is on Wednesday December 2nd at 7.30 to 9.00.    A Zoom link will be sent to existing members of the group on Tuesday 1st. If you would also like to take part, please email charles.hampton1949@gmail.com.   Our theme this time is Journey’s.  We will explore […]

Once a popular diversion, evening Zoom meetings are becoming for some an unwelcome intrusion on sore eyes. We will see if we are still up for this one.

This year marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri. In The Divine Comedy, he unlocked the collective Unconscious to reveal chaos, guilt, recrimination and occasional glimpses of grace. As a celebration of his enduring influence I have chosen the opening lines of L'Inferno and four contemporary poems that explore our reactions to suffering, loss and judgment.

Edward Lucie Smith's The Lesson considers a first response to death, which may not be what you were expecting.

Charles Causley's rumbustious Death of a Poet is about the funeral of Louis MacNeice, who was working on L'Inferno at the time of his demise.

WH Auden's Musee des Beaux Arts is about attention. It is accompanied by Brueghel's painting The Fall of Icarus which you can find here.

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Stevie Smith's Away, Melancholy provides a theological perspective of sorts.

Please download and spend time with the texts and then email programme@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk to say if you are coming on the 22nd.

To register interest in attending, please contact programme@oxfordpsychotherapysociety.org.uk

OPS Book Group - Reflections on Time

Our next meeting will be on Thursday 29th April on zoom at 7.30-9pm when we will be considering some texts which look at Time in different ways.

Baby Blue: adventures in young love
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William Blake
Bob Dylan
Fleur Adcock
James Fenton