Welcome to the Writers' Table
Here we can talk about writing - share your favourite poem, tell us about a play you've seen or a book you've read that features a bell in a particularly memorable way. We would love it if you were inspired to write your own words on the subject of bells, and hope that you might share your creativity with us at this table. Use the form below to send us your work, or tell us about a piece of writing that has particular significance for you.
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Watch this little video of Ali telling us about a poem Chelys discovered when they played a concert in a church with a bell that T.S. Eliot commented on. We'd be delighted to receive your videos too!
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The Writers' Table
Comment on any of the posts here, or send us your own favourite literary bells using the form below.
Lynda writes: Not a poem, but from one of my favourite poets, John Donne. Rendered even more poignant by the imminent end of the Brexit transition period :(
Meditation 17
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
"No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee...."
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Comment on any of the posts here, or send us your own favourite literary bells using the form below.
Lynda writes: Not a poem, but from one of my favourite poets, John Donne. Rendered even more poignant by the imminent end of the Brexit transition period :(
Meditation 17
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
"No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee...."
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